La Maison Nucingen (English "The House of Nucingen", also translated as “The Firm of Nucingen”) is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published...
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César Birotteau (Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau, 1837) The Firm of Nucingen (La Maison Nucingen, 1838) The Secrets of the...
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radio play Balzac. Novels Les Chouans (1829) La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (1829) La Vendetta (1830) La Peau de chagrin (1831) Les Proscrits (1831) Louis...
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Père Goriot (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
repercussions for the plot of Le Père Goriot. Baron de Nucingen's reappearance in La Maison Nucingen (1837) reveals that his wife's love affair with Rastignac...
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Eugène de Rastignac (category La Comédie humaine)
persuaded to become the lover of her sister Delphine (wife of the Baron de Nucingen, a wealthy Alsatian) by his cousin the Vicomtesse de Beauseant, who has...
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Nucingen House (French: La maison Nucingen) is a 2008 French-Romanian-Chilean film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Jean-Marc Barr Elsa Zylberstein...
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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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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
nickname Trompe-la-Mort. Has a weakness for pretty young men, tries to help Lucien move up in society in every evil way possible. Baron de Nucingen, obsessed...
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Klimt (2006) Le Don (2007) – short film La Recta Provincia (2007) Litoral (2008) La maison Nucingen [Nucingen House] (2008) Agathopedia (2008) El pasaporte...
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La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (The 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...
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Sarrasine (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Sarrasine was published, Balzac experienced great success with another work, La Peau de Chagrin (1831). As his career began to take off and his publications...
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La Grenadière is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1832 and is one of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine. La Grenadière...
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La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...
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Séraphîta (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Père Goriot César Birotteau La Maison Nucingen Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan Les Employés Sarrasine Facino Cane La Cousine Bette Le Cousin Pons...
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Cousin Bette (redirect from La Cousine Bette)
"Les ténèbres, le silence, l'air glacial, la profondeur caverneuse du sol concourent à faire de ces maisons des espèces de cryptes, des tombeaux vivants...
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Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising...
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Une passion dans le désert (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
de Balzac. It was published in 1830 and is one of the Scènes de la vie militaire of La Comédie humaine. The story is told in the first person by an unnamed...
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Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is part of his trilogy Histoire...
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La Rabouilleuse (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...
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Vautrin (redirect from Trompe-la-Mort)
until the Baron Nucingen glimpses Esther and falls in love with her. Collin realizes that they can get a lot of money out of Nucingen if he becomes Esther's...
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Illusions perdues (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
novels, La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, 1842), that is set in Paris and in the provinces. It forms part of the Scènes de la vie de province in La Comédie...
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267, 339, 526 ISBN 207010866X; La Fille aux yeux d'or, Pléiade, 1978, t. IX, p. 272 ISBN 2070108694 ; La Maison Nucingen, Pléiade, 1980, t. XI, p. 19 ISBN 2070108767;...
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La Fille aux yeux d'or (English: The Girl With the Golden Eyes) is an 1835 novella by Honoré de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which...
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Colonel Chabert (novella) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
(1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society...
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Le Curé de village (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
(The Village Priest) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It first appeared in La Presse in 1839. Frequently revised, the edited text was published as a separate...
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Le Médecin de campagne (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author's preoccupations with social...
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Perdues 1988: Les Romantiques français devant la peinture espagnole (1990: republished as Interprètes français de la peinture espagnole à l'époque romantique)...
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La Vendetta (The Vendetta) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the eighth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life)...
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Le Contrat de mariage (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, it describes the marriage...
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The Vendetta, p. 22. Olivier Bonard, La peinture dans la création balzacienne. Invention et vision de La Maison du chat-qui-pelote au Père Goriot, Droz...
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