Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu
Balzac, Honoré de
Publication: 1845 Catégorie(s): Fiction Source: wikisource
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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) • La Femme de trente ans (1832) • La Cousine Bette (1847) • L’Enfant maudit (1831) • La Recherche de l’Absolu (1834) • Le Colonel Chabert (1832) 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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GILLETTE
Vers la fin de l'année 1612, par une froide matinée de décembre, un jeune homme dont le vêtement était de très mince apparence, se promenait devant la porte d'une maison située rue des Grands- Augustins, à Paris. Après avoir assez longtemps marché dans cette rue avec l'irrésolution d'un amant qui