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    Le Bal de Sceaux (The Ball at Sceaux) is the fifth work of Honoré de Balzac, one of the oldest texts of la Comédie Humaine. The first edition of this novella...
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    Maison du chat-qui-pelote, 1830) The Ball at Sceaux (Le Bal de Sceaux, 1830) Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, 1842) The Purse (La Bourse...
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    the July Revolution... but power burdens him sometimes..." 1820 – Le Bal de Sceaux (1829) – Rastignac does not appear personally, but is suggested as...
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    (1826) Incomplete at time of death Le Corsaire (opera) Sténie Falthurne Corsino Le Député d'Arcis Novellas Le Bal de Sceaux (1830) Sarrasine (1830) Une double...
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  • struggled against the darkness." Honoré de Balzac La Maison du chat-qui-pelote La Vendetta Le Bal de Sceaux Gobseck Lady Charlotte Bury The Exclusives...
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    Père Goriot (redirect from Le pere Goriot)
    Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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  • an enemy, but falsehood is a greater enemy"). In his novella Le Bal de Sceaux, Honoré de Balzac has the King of France Louis XVIII adapt the phrase as:...
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  • the textile industry in France. Honoré de Balzac refers to it several times in Le Bal de Sceaux, where Emilie de Fontaine discovers Maximilien Longueville...
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    donc le point de départ de mon ouvrage" ("This is the point of departure for my body of work"). Consistently popular even after his death, La Peau de chagrin...
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    Eugénie Grandet (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie...
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