A Murky Business
The mysterious case of the kidnapping, during the First Empire, of a senator warned of the plot planned by Fouché against Napoleon Bonaparte. A book in which Balzac puts his novelistic talent at the service...
DE BALZAC, Honoré
Eugenia Grandet
The book details the landscape, usages and psychology of some inhabitants of rural France. It spells out how Grandet’s increasing greed poisons his family life, and contrasts it with the veneration and...