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Le Père Goriot — Balzac’s novel, published in volume form in 1835
A boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, an old man ruined by his daughters, a student learning Paris: the novel in which its author first brought characters back from one book to the next, the device that was to hold his whole cycle together. (Editorial synthesis)
Le Père Goriot was published in 1835. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Le Père Goriot was published in Paris. (source: BnF)
Recorded author of Le Père Goriot: Honoré de Balzac.
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