Honoré de Balzac

Ursule Mirou t est un roman fran ais d'Honor de Balzac, publi dans Le Messager, en ao t-septembre 1841, puis dit en volume en 1842, dans les tudes de moeurs, section des Sc nes de vie de province de La Com die humaine. Ursule Mirou t, orpheline, est recueillie et lev e par le docteur Minoret, son tuteur, qui se retire Nemours apr s avoir exerc Paris. Attentif, tr s soucieux du bonheur de sa pupille, le bon docteur lui fait donner une ducation de grande qualit . Ursule est entour e de l'affection d'un pr tre, du vieux docteur et d'une servante d vou e. sa mort, le docteur Minoret fait d'Ursule sa l gataire universelle. Mais la fortune du vieillard est depuis longtemps convoit e par une parent le peu favorable sa pupille.

Le texte est partag en plusieurs volets ou m ditations. Les six premi res m ditations exposent l' tat du mariage en France dans les classes sup rieures riches et oisives, puis proposent une s rie de r formes en vue d'am liorer la condition conjugale de la femme et donc de l'emp cher de tromper son poux.

La Com die humaine - tudes de moeurs. Troisi me livre, Sc nes de la vie parisienne - Tome XI (sic, erreur pour le tome III). Onzi me volume de l' dition Furne 1842.

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The Country Doctor By Honor de Balzac, Ellen Marriage

d104e intr gral. Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir o se d ploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hant e par des fauves inqui tants, Le Cousin Pons nous pr sente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon la loge de concierge. Au beau milieu de ce si cle sordide, Sylvain Pons prend rang parmi les martyrs ignor s dont La Com die Humaine met en sc ne les souffrances inconnues, les tortures inflig es "aux mes douces par les mes dures, supplices auxquels succombent tant d'innocentes cr atures". Mais notre esth te ang lique, aussi bon et na f que ''la cousine Bette'' est aigrie et nuisible, est galement un gourmand ridicule et la farce s'immisce souvent dans le drame du pitoyable monomane; la derni re grande oeuvre de Balzac se r v le tre une profonde r flexion sur l' nergie: la collection, comme la gourmandise, est une double compensation, mat rielle et passionnelle, du manque d'argent et d'amour. Comme dans La Peau de chagrin, le probl me est de se m fier du d sir si l'on veut durer et construire.

An Unabridged Edition from the Translation by Ernest Dowson This shot story was my introduction to Honore de Balzac. While I knew the name I had never had anyone suggest I read his work until I entered a course at university and this was suggested reading. I am so glad I discoverer this author. His work is as modern today as when this was first written. A great short story. I highly recommend this.

The Red Inn By Honor de Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Se d roulant dans le Paris du xixe si cle, il raconte l'histoire d'une vieille fille s'appliquant d truire syst matiquement son entourage. Lisbeth Fischer, surnomm e la cousine Bette, est en collaboration avec Val rie Marneffe, une femme qui s'est mari e sans tre amoureuse, pour s duire et tourmenter une s rie d'hommes. L'un d'eux est Hector Hulot, mari de Adeline Hulot, la cousine de Lisbeth. Il sacrifie presque toute la fortune de sa famille dans le but de plaire Val rie, qui finalement le quitte pour un commer ant nomm C lestin Crevel. Le livre fait partie de la section Sc nes de la vie parisienne tir e de la collection La Com die humaine, crite par Balzac

Das Buch 'Tolldreisten Geschichten' von Honor de Balzac ist ein Klassiker der erotischen Literatur. Balzac schrieb neben seinen gro en Werken - offenbar zur Ablenkung und zur Erholung - mit leichter Feder diese kleinen, frivolen Geschichten. Die Einteilung in drei mal zehn Geschichten erinnert wohl nicht ganz zuf llig an das Dekamerone. Mit gro er erz hlerischer Meisterschaft h lt er der feinen Gesellschaft seiner Zeit einen Spiegel vor, auch wenn die Geschichten selbst im sp ten Mittelalter angesiedelt sind.

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Full text.'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.

Full text. The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his prospective canonry that he forgot the four circumstances in which he had seen, the night before, such threatening prognostics of a future full of misery. The vicar was not a man to get up without a fire. He rang to let Marianne know that he was awake and that she must come to him; then he remained, as his habit was, absorbed in somnolent musings.

d104e int gral. milie de Fontaine est une jeune fille de la noblesse que sa famille souhaiterait bien voir mari e. Malheureusement, elle a une si haute id e d'elle-m me, et donc de l'homme qui pourra lui inspirer suffisamment d'amour pour devenir son poux, qu'elle refuse tous les pr tendants qu'on lui pr sente. Jusqu'au jour o , dans un bal champ tre, elle rencontre un bel inconnu...

Full text. The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and plots to seduce her. He succeeds but becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover and so plots to murder her.