a preceding Balzac novel. Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes forms part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine. Lucien de Rubempré and the self-proclaimed...
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or Eugénie Grandet), the tragic prostitute Esther Gobsek (Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes), the worldly daughters of Goriot and other women in society...
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(1846) Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1838–1847) Le Cousin Pons (1847) L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine (1848) Les Paysans (1855) Published...
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Vautrin (category La Comédie humaine)
Roger Jacquet in Le Père Goriot (1972) Georges Géret in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1975) Jean-Pierre Cassel dans Rastignac ou les Ambitieux Tchéky...
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Illusions perdues (redirect from Les Illusions Perdues)
sequel, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (published in parts from 1838 to 1847). Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes form...
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Père Goriot (redirect from Le pere Goriot)
in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters:...
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Eugène de Rastignac (category La Comédie humaine)
fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in Le Père Goriot (1835), and his social...
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make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine. Begun in 1846 as a novella, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations)...
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Judith SdB.72 Abraham SdB.69 La cheutte de Salomon SdB.71 Les misères humaines SdB.75 Les Trois enfans de la fournaise SdB.73 Samson et Dalila SdB.70...
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Sarrasine (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while living alone in the rue Lesdiguières...
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes and in Le Père Goriot. Balzac also included lorettes in Types de personnages de la Comédie humaine. Grandville produced...
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integrated into La Comédie humaine in 1846. The work is separated into two chapters: "Gillette" and "Catherine Lescault". "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu" is a...
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is part of his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which parodies and depicts French society in the period...
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Au Rocher de Cancale (redirect from Le Rocher de Cancale)
restaurant is notably cited in Le Cabinet des Antiques, La Muse du département, Illusions perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, as well as in...
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Massimilla Doni (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Doni », Revue des sciences humaines, 1979, numero 175, p. 61-75. (in French) Brigitte Leroy-Viémon, « Splendeurs et misères du processus de création de...
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Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of...
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Gobseck (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
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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La Messe de l'athée (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
published in 1836. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée in La Comédie humaine. The main character, Desplein, is a successful surgeon. One day, Doctor...
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La Peau de chagrin (redirect from Le Peau de Chagrin)
Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine. Before the book was completed, Balzac created excitement about it by publishing...
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The following is a list of characters from La Comédie humaine a collection of 95 loosely connected novels satirically detailing the life and times of...
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La Fille aux yeux d'or (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comédie humaine novel sequence. The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who...
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El Verdugo (short story) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
de la vie militaire section of La Comedie humaine, but only completed two, Les Chouans and Une passion dans le désert. However, El Verdugo is one of a number...
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Le Bal de Sceaux (The Ball at Sceaux) is the fifth work of Honoré de Balzac, one of the oldest texts of la Comédie Humaine. The first edition of this novella...
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Béatrix (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It first appeared in the periodical Le Siècle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form...
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César Birotteau (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
and is one of the Scènes de la vie parisienne in the series La Comédie humaine. Its main character is a Parisian perfumer, with the prototype being a...
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La Grenadière (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
published in 1832 and is one of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine. La Grenadière is the name of a farm house overlooking the Loire at Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire...
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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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militaire section of La Comedie Humaine, but Une passion dans le désert was one of only two that were completed, the other being Les Chouans. However a number...
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Cousin Bette (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
render a quality feuilleton were unsuccessful. Even though Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ("A Harlot High and Low"), published in segments from 1838...
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Louis Lambert (novel) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at Vendôme, it examines the life and theories of...
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