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Honoré de Balzac was born into a family which aspired to achieve respectability through its industry and efforts. [8] His father, born Bernard-François Balssa, [ 9 ] was one of eleven children from an artisan family in Tarn , a region in the south of France.
Madame Firmiani 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 . [ 1 ] The title character was based on Balzac's older lover, Laure de Berny [ fr ] .
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. Scenes of Private Life), which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.
La Grenadière was the name of a real house in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire where Balzac stayed for a few months in 1830 with his lover Laure de Berny. [2] He attempted to buy the house in 1834, but the deal fell through because of lack of money. [3]
Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist; published by George Barrie & Son in Philadelphia. Le Père Goriot [a] (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father 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 ...
The first works of Balzac were written without any global plan (Les Chouans is a historical novel; Physiologie du mariage is an analytical study of marriage), but by 1830 Balzac began to group his first novels (Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée ("Scenes from Private Life").
Le Contrat de mariage (English: A Marriage Contract or A Marriage Settlement) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
Illusions perdues — in English, Lost Illusions — is a serial novel written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces.