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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.
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Père Goriot Summary. Next. Chapter 1. For 30 years, a widow named Madame Vauquer has run a shabby yet respectable boarding house in an obscure, downscale Paris neighborhood. In the winter of 1819, seven boarders are living there. These include an idealistic young law student named Eugène de Rastignac; a shrunken, elderly pair named ...
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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.
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3.85. 59,714 ratings2,968 reviews. 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.
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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. Goriot dies blessing his daughters, with only Rastignac and Bianchon, a medical student, at his bedside.
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