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"Eugénie Grandet" (1833), part of Balzac's Human Comedy, is a realistic novel that explores greed, family relationships, and the sacrifices of love in provincial French society.
The novel details the life of François-Charles Bonaparte, known as Napoleon II. Born in 1811 as the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Louise of Austria, he held the title of "King of Rome", the symbolic heir to the French Empire.
Uncle Goriot is the story of the old war profiteer Goriot and his daughters, who, after robbing him to the point of being naked, leave him to die in the solitude and misery of the Vaquer boarding house. It is a story that can be read today on several leve
In his novels Eugenie Grandet (1833) and The Museum of Antiquities (1837), Balzac explores universal themes of greed, human passions, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas, placing them in different social contexts of 19th-century French society.
In Duchesse de Guermantes, the protagonist and his family move to a new apartment, part of the de Guermantes palace in Paris. He admires members of high society and finally meets the Duchesse de Guermantes and his interest in her becomes akin to love.