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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 Comédie humaine.
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Le Père Goriot, novel by Honoré de Balzac, originally published in French in the Revue de Paris in 1834 and published in book form in 1835. The novel is considered one of the best works of Balzac’s panoramic series La Comédie humaine (“The Human Comedy”), and it was the first to feature characters.
Chapter 1. For 30 years, a widow named Madame Vauquer has run a shabby yet respectable boarding house in an obscure, downscale Paris neighborhood. In the winter of 1819, seven boarders are living there.
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune.
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’ Honoré de Balzac, commencé à Saché en 1834, dont la publication commence dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1835 en librairie. Il fait partie des Scènes de la vie privée de La Comédie humaine 1.
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Père Goriot is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac that was published in serial form between 1834 and 1835. The novel tells the story of three intertwined characters, Goriot, Vautrin, and Rastignac.
Père Goriot demands thinking about Paris in three ways: first, it is the novel where Balzac starts to make characters reappear from earlier novels and appear again in later: the criminal Vautrin being the best example.
