Guy Deloeuvre: 209 books

Every year, a baron who is passionate about hunting brings together his hunting friends around him. At the end of the meal, the spell designates a guest who must tell a story. Small stories that are in turn funny and touching, where we take pleasure in ridiculing some and laughing at others. Why is...

In the theatre, the flouted husband is a comic character. In reality, he often has the pathetic quality of Mr. Parent whose life is a hell suffered with patience for the love of a child that the betrayed wife finally unmasked takes away claiming that it is not his. Twenty years and a coincidence will...

The Roland, former Parisian jewellers, have retired to Le Havre, where they live happy days. They have two sons: the eldest, Pierre, in his late thirties, brown, thin and nervous, tormented by big plans and subject to unexpected discouragement, has just obtained his degree in medicine. Jean, her five-year-old,...

Paris, 1818. A man came to Master Derville's study, but he was too busy to devote his time to this unknown patibular and offered to meet him later. When the man leaves the study, he declares himself to be Chabert... but everyone knows that Colonel Chabert died at the Battle of Eylau and that...

If this catchy title seems to baptize a work of philosophy or science, in "The Search for the Absolute", it is strictly speaking an invented story and not a philosophical essay or a scientific text. Balthazar Claës, a 50-year-old passionate about chemistry and alchemy, sets out in...

Here is a novel De Balzac which is rarely quoted in the list of his major works. Yet the plot seemed to me as complex as Illusion Perdues can be. He reaches the strength of it. The main character of this book is Véronique Graslin, née Sauviat. In Limoges, her parents lead a life of greed; they are...

The story takes place between 1838 and 1843. Baron Hulot leads a libertine life that risks ruining his entire family. His wife, Adeline, is desperate because the Baron's escapades put their daughter Hortense's marriage in danger, to whom it will be difficult to offer a dowry. All this is taught...

The young aristocrat Raphael de Valentin, after losing all his fortune to pay his father's debts, intends to commit suicide. He comes by chance to an antique dealer, where an old man shows him "a skin of sorrow" with the power to grant all the wishes of his owner: "If you own me, you will own everything, but your life will belong to me".

Father Goriot is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, written in 1834, which was first published in the Revue de Paris and published in 1835 in bookshops. It is part of the Scenes of the Private Life of the Human Comedy. Father Goriot laid the foundations for what would become a real building: the Comédie humaine, a unique literary construction, with links between volumes, bridges and references.

After Father Goriot and Lost Illusions, Splendours et misères des courtisanes completes "Vautrin's trilogy". This hero of the lowlands, a forger and murderer, is also a sublime lover and a poet in his own way, who devotes his Titanic strengths and infernal imagination to the fortune of...

This story written in 1829 was later placed by Balzac at the opening of the "Comédie Humaine". We find the plot of what the novels will be and we already meet the heroes of other episodes. Everything here prefigures Balzac's great work. It is in these few pages a perfect miniature of everything...

In 1829, on a pretty spring morning, a man about fifty years old was riding a mountainous path that led to a large village near the Grande-Chartreuse. This man, Commander Genestas is looking for another one: Mr. Benassis, country doctor and mayor of this village. The meeting is taking place, but why...

In Saumur, Félix Grandet (father Grandet) has built up, thanks to numerous land speculations, a fortune that is equal only to his avarice. He reigns as a tyrant over his entourage: his wife, his only daughter, Eugenie, and his servant Nanon. He locks everything up, and rations the whole house. On...

This novel by Honoré de Balzac was published for the first two parts, "Les deux Enfances" and "les Premières amours" from November to December 1835 in the Paris magazine. Then, due to a dispute with Buloz, the publication was interrupted. The book, in its full version, was published...