La Comédie humaine
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La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
1901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac, including the entire Comédie humaine
Père Goriot
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Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it f
La Comédie humaine
…characters are so vivid that they have become archetypes, such as Rastignac, the ambitious young provincial, Grandet, the miserly domestic tyrant, or Father Goriot, the icon of fatherhood. He gives an important place to financiers and notaries, but also to the character of Vautrin, the outlaw with multiple identities…
Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist; published by George Barrie & Son in Philadelphia
French criminal Eugène François Vidocq was the basis for the character Vautrin in Le Père Goriot.
Father Goriot by Daumier (1842).
1901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac, including Father Goriot