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Père Goriot

Le Père Goriot (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}French pronunciation: , "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)…

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Author
Honoré de Balzac
Publication date
December 1834 – February 1835 (serialisation) March 1835 (bound)
Publisher
Revue de Paris
Dewey Decimal
843.7
Language
French
Media type
Serialisation in journal

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Père Goriot

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Père Goriot

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related to Bibliography · 136
Père Goriot → Adamson, America, Anatomy, Anthony, Appendix, Approaches, Auerbach, Author's Introduction, Avil Publishing, Avil Publishing Company, Balzac, Balzac's Comédie, Balzac's Comédie Humaine, Balzac's Recurring Characters, Baran, Barbéris, Bellos, Bernard Weinberg, Biography, Brooks
related to background · 34
Père Goriot → Ancien Régime, April, Around, At, Balzac, Bourbon, Bourbon Restoration, By, Eugène François Vidocq, First Republic, France, French, French Revolution, House, In, Individuals, Industrial Revolution, It, June, La Comédie
related to Reception and legacy · 30
Père Goriot → Anatomy, Anthony Pugh's, Balzac, Balzac's, Balzac's Recurring Characters, Because, Brooks, Comédie, English, French, Félicien Marceau's, Goriot, Graham Robb, He, His, Initial, It, Its, La Comédie, Le Père Goriot
related to Style · 22
Père Goriot → Although, American, At, Balzac, Balzac's, Cooper's, Goriot, Huron, Illinois, In, In Cooper's, James Fenimore Cooper, La Comédie, Le Père Goriot, Napoleonic, Native Americans, New World, Paris, Scott, Scottish
related to Writing and publication · 17
Père Goriot → As, Balzac, Charpentier, December, Edmond Werdet, February, He, His, In, It, Le Père Goriot, March, May, Old Goriot, Paris, Revue, Subject
related to External links · 16
Père Goriot → Ellen Marriage, English, Father Goriot, French, Internet Archive, June, Le Père Goriot, LibriVox, Media, Project Gutenberg, Père Goriot Archived, Standard Ebooks, Tailored TextsFather Goriot, Wayback Machine, Wikimedia CommonsFather Goriot, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Influence of Paris · 16
Père Goriot → Chaussée-d'Antin, Europe, Faubourg Saint-Germain, French, His, Le Père Goriot, Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Napoleonic, Paris, Peter Brooks, Rastignac, The, These, Three, Traveling, Vautrin
related to Social stratification · 16
Père Goriot → As, Balzac, Beauséant, Darwinism, In, King Louis XVIII, Le Père Goriot, Madame, One, Rastignac, Rastignac's, Scott's, The Charter, Through, Thus, Zeitgeist
related to Recurring characters · 15
Père Goriot → Although, Although Balzac, Arthur Conan Doyle, Balzac, Balzac's, Detective, It, La Comédie, Le Père Goriot, Pleased, Rastignac, Rastignac's, Readers, Samuel Rogers, When
is a · 2
Père Goriot → quest to understand and ascend society's strata, raging success

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Père GoriotAuthorHonoré de Balzac1.00infobox
Père GoriotDewey Decimal843.71.00infobox
Père GoriotLanguageFrench1.00infobox
Père GoriotMedia typeSerialisation in journal1.00infobox
Père GoriotOriginal textLe Père Goriot at French Wikisource1.00infobox
Père GoriotOriginal titleLe Père Goriot1.00infobox
Père GoriotPublication dateDecember 1834 – February 1835 (serialisation) March 1835 (bound)1.00infobox
Père GoriotPublication placeFrance1.00infobox
Père GoriotPublisherRevue de Paris1.00infobox
Père GoriotSeriesLa Comédie humaine1.00infobox
Père GoriotSet inParis, 18191.00infobox
Père Goriotis aquest to understand and ascend society's strata0.90text
Père Goriotis araging success0.90text

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