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His work, much of which is a sequence ( or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848) . Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Balzac:  \n Colonel Chabert (1832)  \n Eugénie Grandet (1833)  \n The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1833)  \n The Chouans (1829)  \n Sarrasine (1830)  \n The Marriage Contract (1845)  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nTo the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius.  \nDE BALZAC.  \nMme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg SaintMarcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme. Vauquer's boarders.  \nThat word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed intra et extra muros before it is over.  \nWill any one without the walls of Paris understand it? It is open to doubt. The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and wellneigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there. Nowand again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed. Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant. And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will","cbCaif2goh2nXJPL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif2goh2nXJPL","pdf",1449460,242,"English","# Characters and setting\n## Mme. Vauquer's lodging-house\n## Paris surroundings and local color\n# The opening promise of the tragedy\n## “Drama” and the claim that all is true\n## Audience, observation, and moral effect\n# Narrative purpose\n## Tears within and beyond the walls\n## Civilized progress and broken hearts","[{\"question\":\"Who keeps the lodging-house where the story begins?\",\"answer\":\"Mme. Vauquer, an elderly woman who has run the Maison Vauquer on Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve for decades.\"},{\"question\":\"When does the story open?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative states that the drama begins in 1819.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text describe the nature of the story?\",\"answer\":\"It insists the drama is neither fiction nor romance, claiming that all is true and that the elements of the tragedy can be found within one’s own house or heart.\"}]","Father Goriot | PDF",373]