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    Le Réquisitionnaire (English "The Conscript" or "The Recruit") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1831 and is one of the Études...
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    1831) Farewell (Adieu, 1830) The Maranas (Les Marana, 1834, a.k.a. Juana) The Conscript (Le Réquisitionnaire, 1831) El Verdugo (1830) A Drama on the Seashore...
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    Stories Étude de femme (1830) Adieu (1830) Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831) La Grande Bretèche (1831) Le Réquisitionnaire (1831) L'Auberge rouge (1831) La Comédie...
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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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  • recruit or low rank in German-speaking countries Seaman recruit Le Réquisitionnaire (English "The Conscript" or more commonly "The Recruit"), a short...
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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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    Chef-d'œuvre inconnu L'Enfant maudit Gambara Massimilla Doni Les Marana Adieu Le Réquisitionnaire El Verdugo Un drame au bord de la mer L'Auberge rouge L'Elixir...
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    Herrera. He is the escaped convict Vautrin whom Balzac had already presented in Le Père Goriot. Herrera takes Lucien under his protection and they drive off...
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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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    Chef-d'œuvre inconnu L'Enfant maudit Gambara Massimilla Doni Les Marana Adieu Le Réquisitionnaire El Verdugo Un drame au bord de la mer L'Auberge rouge L'Elixir...
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    Oriental story.") One week later, he published a story fragment called "Le Dernier Napoléon" in La Caricature, under the name "Henri B...". In it, a...
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    a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in Le Père Goriot (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French...
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    in Le Curé de village [The Village Priest] and La Duchesse de Langeais [The Duchess of Langeais]. Cherbourg is also present in Le Réquisitionnaire [The...
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    name is Jacques Collin (pronounced [ʒɑk kɔlɛ̃]). He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions...
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    stayed there in 1829. He evoked the headquarters in Granville in Le Réquisitionnaire in 1831 Émile Riotteau [fr] (1837–1927), shipowner, politician, mayor...
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    Le Cousin Pons (French pronunciation: [lə kuzɛ̃ pɔ̃s]) is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine...
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    drawing of Paul Gauguin's ceramic sculpture Oviri bears the inscription Et le monstre, entréignant sa créature, féconde de sa semence des flancs généreux...
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    combien l’amour revient aux vieillards, 1843) The End of Evil Ways (Où mènent les mauvais chemins, 1846) The Last Incarnation of Vautrin (La Dernière incarnation...
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  • in one of them. Birotteau Goriot Raphaël de Valentin le baron Hulot Balthazar Claës Grandet le cousin Pons Balzac created fictional coats of arms for...
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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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    Balzac, published in 1841. It was originally published in serial form in Le Journal du Commerce. It is one of the Scènes de la vie politique in La Comédie...
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    August 1830 in the periodical Le Voleur. The actual novella appeared in a volume published by Mame-Delaunay under the title Les Dangers de l'inconduite. This...
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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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    Les Proscrits (sometimes translated into English as The Exiles) is a French short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1831 by éditions Gosselin, then...
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    Cousin Bette (category Works originally published in Le Constitutionnel)
    in two months. It was published in Le Constitutionnel at the end of 1846, then collected with a companion work, Le Cousin Pons, the following year. The...
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    Balzac's Les Chouans », Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 1984,n° 12 (3-4), 43–57. Dorothy Magette, « Trapping Crayfish: The Artist, Nature, and Le Calcul...
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    Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the...
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    Balzac ou l'archéologie du moi moderne," La Plume et la pierre : l'écrivain et le modèle archéologique au XIXe siècle, Nîmes, Champ Social, 2007, 291-318. Stoltzfus...
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    Chef-d'œuvre inconnu L'Enfant maudit Gambara Massimilla Doni Les Marana Adieu Le Réquisitionnaire El Verdugo Un drame au bord de la mer L'Auberge rouge L'Elixir...
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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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