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    drame au bord de la mer, 1834) Maître Cornélius (1831) The Red Inn (L'Auberge rouge, 1831) About Catherine de' Medici (Sur Catherine de Médicis, 1842)...
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    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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    later editions of La Peau de chagrin, he changed the text to name one of the bankers "Taillefer", whom he had introduced in L'Auberge rouge (1831). He...
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    Un épisode sous la Terreur (English "An Episode during the Terror") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1830. Originally titled Une messe...
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    Eugène de Rastignac (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn də ʁastiɲak]) is a fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac...
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    La Grande Bretèche is a short story by Honoré de Balzac published in 1831. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine. Dr. Horace...
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    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 (1799–1850)...
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  • L'Auberge rouge (English "The Red Inn") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1831 and is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie...
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    Père Goriot (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    (French pronunciation: [ pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included...
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  • politician Daniel d'Arthez Delphine de Nucingen née Goriot Roger de Granville Louis Lambert la duchesse de Langeais la comtesse de Mortsauf Jean-Jacques Bixiou...
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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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    La Rabouilleuse (French pronunciation: [la ʁabujøz], The Black Sheep, or The Two Brothers) is an 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac, and is one of The Celibates...
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    Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately...
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    La Messe de l'athée (English "The Atheist's Mass") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1836. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée in...
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  • abrégé des mythologies de tous les peuples policés ou barbares, tant anciens que modernes, as well as his Souvenirs de la Terreur and Souvenirs thermidoriens...
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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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    Abeilles de Delphes (1952). Commentaire sur Quarante-neuf Dizains de la 'Délie' (1953). La Terreur en Question (1958). L'Ontologie du Secret (1973). Reprendre...
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    Vautrin (redirect from Trompe-la-Mort)
    [votʁɛ̃]) is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin (pronounced...
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    La Cousine Bette (French pronunciation: [la kuzin bɛt], Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris...
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    Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private...
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    Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    inconnu" (English: "The Unknown Masterpiece") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste with the title "Maître...
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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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    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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    Gobseck (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), appears in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Gobseck first...
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    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 of his...
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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 began...
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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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    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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    La Paix du ménage (Domestic Bliss) is a French short story by Honoré de Balzac, which was first published by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée in 1830 as one of...
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    Colonel Chabert (novella) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy)...
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