Honoré de Balzac

Madame Firmiani est un personnage de La Com die humaine d'Honor de Balzac. Elle est le personnage principal du roman Madame Firmiani.

Beatrix by Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) B atrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Sc nes de la vie priv e section of his novel sequence La Com die humaine. It first appeared in the periodical Le Si cle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form the same year. Balzac based the characters in this novel on real figures: F licit des Touches, a celebrated musician and writer, is based on George Sand. B atrix de Rochefide is based on Marie d'Agoult (who wrote under the pen name of Daniel Stern); Gennaro Conti is based on Franz Liszt; Claude Vignon is based on Gustave Planche. Plot A handsome young man named Calyste du Gu nic is in love with the older woman, F licit des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin. F licit at first does not reciprocate Calyste's feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness B atrix de Rochefide. B atrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to B atrix that "for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is unexampled, and her efforts to keep her youth and her hold over men are drawn in Balzac's heaviest and most pitiless manner." B atrix had already had an affair with Gennaro Conti, and Calyste has an additional rival in the form of Claude Vignon. F licit des Touches (Camille Maupin) tries to help Calyste win B atrix's heart, thus sacrificing her own. Calyste's efforts are ultimately a failure, and B atrix is taken away by Gennaro Conti. Calyste is devastated by his failure, but promises his dying father to get married. F licit des Touches enters a convent, but before she does, she uses her fortune to arrange a marriage for Calyste with a woman named Sabine de Grandlieu. When Calyste encounters B atrix again in Paris, his wife Sabine struggles to win back her husband's affections after Calyste falls for B atrix again. Subsequently, through the intercession of Count Maxime de Trailles, B atrix falls for another young man, and Calyste comes to his senses.

Fran ois Birotteau, vicaire de la cath drale Saint-Gatien de Tours, est victime de la haine secr te de l'abb Troubert et de sa logeuse, mademoiselle Gamard

Comme toujours, Balzac ne s'appuie sur aucun fait divers r el, mais sur ce qui aurait pu exister, car les Sanson, bourreaux de p re en fils, taient tr s pieux.

La Grenadi re est le nom d'une maison de campagne, simple et confortable, o tout respire le bonheur et la simplicit , depuis les vieux domestiques jusqu'aux meubles simples, mais de bon go t et au jardin particuli rement soign .

"Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travellers along that road are in the habit of resting. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fantastic costumes and a mixture of individuals belonging to so many and diverse localities and professions that it will be well to describe their characteristic differences, in order to give to this history the vivid local coloring to which so much value is attached in these days, - though some critics do assert that it injures the representation of sentiments."... This famous historical novel of Honore de Balzac is set in Brittany, 1799, during the royalist revolt against the Republic.

Honor de Balzac, el padre de la novela realista, no pudo resistirse a la atracci n de lo fant stico y en varias etapas de su vida, el autor de "La Comedia Humana" rindi tributo al g nero del misterio y lo sobrenatural. Bajo el t tulo de "El elixir de larga vida", Balzaz nos deja ver una nueva versi n de la historia de Don Juan y sus infiernos, una clara muestra de su maestr a literaria y su amplia imaginaci n visionaria.

Pap Goriot es quiz junto con Eugenia Grandet, la mejor y m s importante novela escrita por Balzac. Este es un drama de la paternidad, as como lo es El rey Lear, de Shakespeare. Y a menudo se han establecido comparaciones entre las dos obras; porque no hay diferencias entre el drama de un comerciante arruinado, de un especulador de la revoluci n y un rey: el especulador, y el rey, debajo del manto y la corona, debajo del ropaje de un burgu s, del mercader arruinado, son padres.