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Le Cousin Pons (French pronunciation: [lə kuzɛ̃ pɔ̃s]) is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine.Begun in 1846 as a novella, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette).
- Honoré de Balzac
- France
- 1847
- 1847
Cousin Pons, novel by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1847 as Le Cousin Pons. One of the novels that makes up Balzac’s series La Comédie humaine ( The Human Comedy ), Cousin Pons is often paired with La Cousine Bette under the title Les Parents pauvres (“The Poor Relations”). One of the last and greatest of Balzac’s novels of French ...
- Honoré de Balzac
- 1847
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Le Cousin Pons is the second part of Histoire des parents pauvres, which appeared as a serial in the daily Le Constitutionnel from October 1846 to March 1847. This major work comprises two equally famous symmetrical novels, La Cousine Bette and Le Cousin Pons. Balzac summed up the two parts of this diptych as follows: ” Le Vieux musicien (the ...
Mar 3, 2010 · M. Camusot, the rich silk mercer of the Rue des Bourdonnais, had married Pons’ first cousin, Mlle. Pons, only child and heiress of one of the well-known firm of Pons Brothers, court embroiderers. Pons’ own father and mother retired from a firm founded before the Revolution of 1789, leaving their capital in the business until Mlle. Pons ...
Le Cousin Pons est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, paru en feuilleton en 1847 dans Le Constitutionnel, et publié en volume la même année. Ce roman fait partie des Scènes de la vie parisienne dans la section Les Parents pauvres , où Le Cousin Pons voisine avec La Cousine Bette , dont il est en quelque sorte le symétrique.
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Summary. Sylvain Pons is an ugly man who has no family except one cousin, Monsieur de Marville, a rich and influential government official. As a result of his connection, Cousin Pons, as the de ...
Wilkinson, Lynn R. “Le Cousin Pons and the Invention of Ideology.” PMLA 107, no. 2 (March, 1992): 274-289. Analyzes the complex relationships between ideology and representation in Balzac’s ...
