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Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, commencé à Saché en 1834, dont la publication commence dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1835 en librairie. Il fait partie des Scènes de la vie privée de La Comédie humaine [ 1 ] .
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Le Père Goriot, novel by Honoré de Balzac, originally published in French in the Revue de Paris in 1834 and published in book form in 1835. The novel is considered one of the best works of Balzac’s panoramic series La Comédie humaine (“The Human Comedy”), and it was the first to feature characters.
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune.
Père Goriot is considered to be Balzac’s most important novel, and it falls within the Scènes de la vie privée section of his multi-volume La Comédie humaine, which consists of 91 short stories, novels, and essays, all organized into different aspects of French life in the early 19th century.
Père Goriot is afflicted by a stroke. He soon becomes delirious, muttering incoherent words, revealing also his extreme love for the daughters who have left him, one to go to a dance, the other to protect her fortune.
