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This is one of Balzac's fantastic reality tales, not only resounding in the supernatural and the occult, in diabolical elixirs, eternal life or in a piece of the conscious body that returns to the life of a corpse. There is a sharp criticism against some ways of the living of the bourgeoisie and especially on the institution of the Catholic Church.
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The main character, Desplein is a successful surgeon and an atheist. His former assistant and friend is Doctor Horace Bianchon. One day Bianchon sees Desplein going into the Saint-Sulpice church, and follows him. He sees Desplein alone attending a mass. After Desplein departs, Bianchon questions the priest and finds that Desplein attends a mass at the church four times a year, which he himself pays for.
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Une édition de référence d'Eugénie Grandet de Honoré de Balzac, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« En toute situation, les femmes ont plus de causes de douleur que n'en a l'homme, et souffrent plus que lui. L'homme a sa force, et l'exercice de sa puissance : il agit, il va, il s'occupe, il pense, il embrasse l'avenir et y trouve des consolations. Ainsi faisait Charles. Mais la femme demeure, elle reste face...
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Une édition de référence de La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote d'Honoré de Balzac, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Un soir, elle fut frappée d'une pensée qui vint illuminer ses ténébreux chagrins comme un rayon céleste. Cette idée ne pouvait sourire qu'à un cœur aussi pur, aussi vertueux que l'était le sien. Elle résolut d'aller chez la duchesse de Carigliano, non pas pour lui redemander le cœur de...
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A Passion in the Desert (1830) is a short story by French author, Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, A Passion in the Desert is a frequently anthologized work of short fiction that explores humanity's relationship with nature as well as the effects of conquest and colonization. The story was loosely adapted into a 1997 feature film and remains one of Balzac's most acclaimed works. The story's frame narrative begins...
6) Cousin Betty
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La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please...
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