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    Le Contrat de mariage (English: A Marriage Contract or A Marriage Settlement) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included...
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    (1835) Le Lys dans la vallée (1835) Le Contrat de mariage (1835) La Vieille Fille (1836) César Birotteau (1837) La Muse du département (1832–1837) Le Cabinet...
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    (Le Message, 1832) Gobseck (1830) A Marriage Contract (Le Contrat de mariage, 1835) A Start in Life (Un début dans la vie, 1845; first published as Le...
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    Vautrin (category Honoré de Balzac characters)
    considered non-canon) La Cousine Bette (small, unnamed appearance) Le Contrat de mariage (mentioned) Vautrin, forbidden in 1840 Vautrin, by Émile Guirard...
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    him to advance. 1833 – Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan(1840) – Rastignac is Under-Secretary of State to Prime Minister de Marsay. His cleverness...
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    Père Goriot (redirect from Le pere Goriot)
    Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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    "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu" (English: "The Unknown Masterpiece") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste...
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    Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his...
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    Le Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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    Eugénie Grandet (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    [øʒeni ɡʁɑ̃dɛ]) is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie...
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    dissipated Philibert, Count de Gramont ..." Saint-Simon 1899, p. 563, line 8. "Le contrat de mariage fut passé sans autre retard, le 9 décembre 1663 (style...
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    understanding he showed toward women in La Physiologie du mariage, but felt that La Peau de chagrin portrayed them in a cruel and unforgiving light. Hańska...
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    Louis Lambert (novel) (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    La Physiologie du mariage (1829), Sarrasine (1830), and La Peau de chagrin (1831). In 1831 Balzac published a short story called "Les Proscrits" ("The...
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    Les Chouans (French pronunciation: [le ʃwɑ̃], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included...
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    La Fille aux yeux d'or (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
    novella by Honoré de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also...
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    Séraphîta (category Works originally published in Revue de Paris)
    Gauguin's ceramic sculpture Oviri bears the inscription Et le monstre, entréignant sa créature, féconde de sa semence des flancs généreux pour engendrer Séraphitus-Séraphita...
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    Béatrix (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It first appeared in the periodical Le Siècle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form the same year. Balzac based...
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    (French: La Duchesse de Langeais) is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section...
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    carriage; Mme de Bargeton has just married du Châtelet, who has been appointed prefect of that region. In Part III, Les Souffrances de l'inventeur, in...
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    Z. Marcas (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
    nommé là-haut avant de l'être ici-bas. C'est un mystère auquel il ne convient pas d'appliquer, pour le comprendre, les petites règles de nos petits raisonnements...
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    Sarrasine (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
    119-136. Sprenger, Scott. "Sarrasine de Balzac ou l'archéologie du moi moderne," La Plume et la pierre : l'écrivain et le modèle archéologique au XIXe siècle...
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    Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    mènent les mauvais chemins, 1846) The Last Incarnation of Vautrin (La Dernière incarnation de Vautrin, 1847) It continues the story of Lucien de Rubempré...
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    Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (English "The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in...
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    dissipated Philibert, Count de Gramont ..." Saint-Simon 1899, p. 563, line 8. "Le contrat de mariage fut passé sans autre retard, le 9 décembre 1663 (style...
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    La Rabouilleuse (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    ʁabujøz], The Black Sheep, or The Two Brothers) is an 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac, and is one of The Celibates in the series La Comédie humaine. The...
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    Eugène-François Vidocq (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    novel Le Père Goriot, then in Illusions perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (as the main character), La Cousine Bette, Le Contrat de mariage, and...
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    The Quest of the Absolute (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée;...
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    balzacienne, 1968, p. 383-98. (in French) Émile Danino, « Contrats et castration dans Le Curé de Tours (Balzac) », (Pre)publications, 1980, n° 61, p. 3-13...
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    La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    House of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée (transl. Scenes of Private Life), which...
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    Les Jardies was Balzac's estate in Sèvres Collection Lovenjoul: Ms Lov. A 18. Roger Pierrot, Album de la Pléiade, Volume 12, p.339. Balzac, Honoré de...
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