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
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
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.
Père Goriot
…is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included 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: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin…
1901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac, including the entire Comédie humaine