La Duchesse de Langeais
Balzac, Honoré de

Publication: 1834 Catégorie(s): Fiction Source: http://fr.wikisource.org

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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 Lys dans la vallée (1835) • Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu (1845) • La Cousine Bette (1847) • La Femme de trente ans (1832) • 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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La Sœur Thérèse
Il existe dans une ville espagnole située sur une île de la Méditerranée, un couvent de Carmélites Déchaussées où la règle de l'Ordre institué par sainte Thérèse s'est conservée dans la rigueur primitive de la réformation due à cette illustre