Le Contrat de mariage
Balzac, Honoré de

Publication: 1835 Catégorie(s): Fiction Source: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com

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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 Roman-fleuve) 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 welldefined 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 Disponible sur Feedbooks pour Balzac: • Le Père Goriot (1834) • La Peau de chagrin (1831) • Eugénie Grandet (1833) • Illusions perdues (1843) • Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu (1845) • Le Lys dans la vallée (1835) • La Femme de trente ans (1832) • La Cousine Bette (1847) • L’Enfant maudit (1831) • La Recherche de l’Absolu (1834) Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.

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Monsieur de Manerville le père était un bon gentilhomme normand bien connu du maréchal de Richelieu, qui lui fit épouser une des plus riches héritières de Bordeaux dans le temps où le vieux duc y alla trôner en sa qualité de gouverneur de Guyenne. Le Normand vendit les