Name: Ursule Mirouët (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781979649742

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

156

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.8 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781979649742

Synopsis "Ursule Mirouët (in French)"

Ursule Mirouët est un roman français d'Honoré de Balzac, publié dans Le Messager, en août-septembre 1841, puis édité en volume en 1842, dans les Études de moeurs, section des Scènes de vie de province de La Comédie humaine. Ursule Mirouët, orpheline, est recueillie et élevée par le docteur Minoret, son tuteur, qui se retire à Nemours après avoir exercé à Paris. Attentif, très soucieux du bonheur de sa pupille, le bon docteur lui fait donner une éducation de grande qualité. Ursule est entourée de l'affection d'un prêtre, du vieux docteur et d'une servante dévouée. À sa mort, le docteur Minoret fait d'Ursule sa légataire universelle. Mais la fortune du vieillard est depuis longtemps convoitée par une parentèle peu favorable à sa pupille.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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