La Comédie humaine - Volume 12. Scènes de la vie parisienne et scènes de la vie…
"La Comédie humaine - Volume 12. Scènes de la vie parisienne et scènes de la vie…" by Honoré de Balzac is part of a vast literary project written between 1829 and 1850. This volume belongs to Balzac's ambitious attempt to create a "natural history of society" through interconnected novels, stories, and essays. The work systematically explores social groups and mechanisms of French society, featuring hundreds of recurring characters who reappear across multiple
narratives. Balzac captures the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the complexity of human nature in vivid detail. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
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| Title | La Comédie humaine - Volume 12. Scènes de la vie parisienne et scènes de la vie politique |
| Original Publication | France: Madame veuve Alexandre Houssiaux,1868. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine |
| Contents | Scènes de la vie parisienne: Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (troisième partie: Où mènent les mauvais chemins). Un prince de la Bohème. Une esquisse d'homme d'affaires d'après nature. Gaudissart II. Les comédiens sans le savoir -- Scènes de la vie politique: Un épisode sous la Terreur. Une ténébreuse affaire. Z. Marcas. L'envers de l'histoire contemporaine (premier épisode). Le député d'Arcis. Lettres édifiantes. |
| Credits | Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Politicians -- France -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 67264 |
| Release Date | Jan 28, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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