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    La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and...
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    August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally...
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  • La Grenadière 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. La Grenadière...
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    Ursule Mirouët (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    series of 94 novels and short stories La Comédie humaine. First published in 1841, it forms part of his Scènes de la vie de province. The action of the novel...
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    Life) in La Comédie humaine. Later editions of the work were brought out by Béchet in 1835 and by Charpentier in 1839, in both of which La Bourse was...
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  • The following is a list of characters from La Comédie humaine a collection of 95 loosely connected novels satirically detailing the life and times of French...
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    his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine. Before the book was...
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  • "La Comedie Humaine (2010)". Retrieved 9 July 2010. La comédie humaine at IMDb La Comedie Humaine at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase La Comédie Humaine at...
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    Gobseck (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    appears in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Gobseck first appeared in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under...
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    Balzac, published in 1836. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée in La Comédie humaine. The main character, Desplein, is a successful surgeon. One day, Doctor...
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    Illusions perdues (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    Honoré de (1897). Comédie Humaine: Lost illusions (Illusions perdues) 1897. J.M. Dent. Balzac, Honoré de (1897). Comédie Humaine: A distinguished provincial...
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    Père Goriot (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    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...
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    La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, or The Two Brothers) is an 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac, and is one of The Celibates in the series La Comédie humaine...
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    which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comédie humaine novel sequence. The story follows the decadent...
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    in La Comédie humaine. The novel was first published in 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée. In 1842 it appeared in the first Furne edition of La Comédie humaine...
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    Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names...
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    Sarrasine (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while living alone in the rue Lesdiguières...
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    Colonel Chabert (novella) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the...
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    It was published in 1837 and is one of the Scènes de la vie Parisienne of La Comédie humaine. The story is told in the first person by an anonymous...
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    Eugène de Rastignac (category La Comédie humaine)
    pronunciation: [øʒɛn də ʁastiɲak]) is a fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character...
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    Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    in Balzac's Études philosophiques in 1837 and was integrated into La Comédie humaine in 1846. The work is separated into two chapters: "Gillette" and "Catherine...
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    La Grande Bretèche is a short story by Honoré de Balzac published in 1831. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine. Dr. Horace...
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    Le Curé de Tours (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    appeared in volume II of Scènes de la vie de province (volume VI of his vast narrative series La Comédie humaine). Le Curé de Tours is one of the best...
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    Le Bal de Sceaux (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    oldest texts of la Comédie Humaine. The first edition of this novella was published in 1830 by Mame and Delaunay-Vallée in the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes...
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    Adieu (short story) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    de Balzac. It was published in 1830 in La Mode. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine. In 1819, two men, Baron Philippe de Sucy...
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    Modeste Mignon (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    de Balzac. It is the fifth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The first part of the novel was serialized in...
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    El Verdugo (short story) (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    Balzac, published in 1829. It one of the Études philosophiques in La Comédie humaine. The story is set in Spain during the Peninsular War, in the coastal...
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    Mortsauf. It is part of his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which parodies and depicts French society in the...
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  • Une passion dans le désert (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    Balzac. It was published in 1830 and is one of the Scènes de la vie militaire of La Comédie humaine. The story is told in the first person by an unnamed narrator...
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    de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger...
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