Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Balzac, Honoré de

Publication: 1847
Catégorie(s): Fiction, Roman
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 Romanfleuve) 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 well-defined 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
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• Le Père Goriot (1834)
• La Peau de chagrin (1831)
• Illusions perdues (1843)
• Eugénie Grandet (1833)
• La Cousine Bette (1847)
• Le Lys dans la vallée (1835)
• La Femme de trente ans (1832)
• Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
• Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu (1845)
• L’Enfant maudit (1831)
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Partie 1
Comment aiment les filles

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Une vue du bal de l'Opéra
En 1824, au dernier bal de l'Opéra, plusieurs masques furent frappés de la beauté d'un jeune homme qui se promenait dans les corridors et dans le foyer, avec l'allure