La Messe de l'athée (English "The Atheist's Mass") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1836. It is one of the Scènes de la vie privée in...
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Le Colonel Chabert (1844, first published as La transaction, 1832) The Atheist's Mass (La Messe de l'athée, 1836) L'Interdiction (1836, a.k.a. The Commission...
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Comédie du diable (1831) La Bourse (1832) La Grenadière (1832) Le Message (1832) Un drame au bord de la mer (1834) La Messe de l'athée (1836) Facino Cane (1837)...
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Eugène de Rastignac (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn də ʁastiɲak]) is a fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac...
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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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Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately...
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Saint-Sulpice, Paris (category Burial sites of the House of la Tour d'Auvergne)
Honoré de Balzac celebrated Mass in the church and lived nearby in the rue Cassette. Furthermore, the plot of Balzac's short story La Messe de l'athée centers...
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Illusions perdues (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
novels, La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, 1842), that is set in Paris and in the provinces. It forms part of the Scènes de la vie de province in La Comédie...
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La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
1846) The Last Incarnation of Vautrin (La Dernière incarnation de Vautrin, 1847) It continues the story of Lucien de Rubempré, who was a main character in...
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