Le Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de

Publication: 1834 Catégorie(s): Fiction Source: http://fr.wikisource.org

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A Propos Balzac: Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of welldefined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style. Source: Wikipedia Disponible sur Feedbooks pour Balzac: • La Peau de chagrin (1831) • Eugénie Grandet (1833) • Illusions perdues (1843) • Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu (1845) • Le Lys dans la vallée (1835) • La Femme de trente ans (1832) • La Cousine Bette (1847) • L’Enfant maudit (1831) • La Recherche de l’Absolu (1834) • Le Colonel Chabert (1832) Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.

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Au grand et illustre Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Comme un témoignage d'admiration de ses travaux et de son génie. DE BALZAC.

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Une pension bourgeoise
Madame Vauquer, née de Conflans, est une vieille femme qui, depuis quarante ans, tient à Paris une pension bourgeoise établie rue