Le Père Goriot

Father Goriot

AuthorHonoré de Balzac

LanguageFrench

Year1835

CountryFrance

GenreNovel

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Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.— Wikipedia