La Cousine Bette
Balzac, Honoré de

Published: 1847 Type(s): Novels Source: http://fr.wikisource.org

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A propos de 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) • Illusions perdues (1843) • Le Lys dans la vallée (1835) • Eugénie Grandet (1833) • La Recherche de l’Absolu (1834) • Le Colonel Chabert (1832) • La Femme de trente ans (1832) • Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu (1845) • Les Chouans (1827) 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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Où la passion va-t-elle se nicher ?
Vers le milieu du mois de juillet de l’année 1838, une de ces voitures nouvellement mises en circulation sur les places de Paris et nommées des milords cheminait, rue de l’Université, portant un gros homme de taille moyenne, en uniforme de capitaine de la garde