Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine

Release date is 2023-11-05

Massimilla Doni -- Gambara -- L'Enfant maudit -- Les Marana -- Adieu -- Le Réquisitionnaire -- El Verdugo -- Un Drame au bord de la mer -- L'Auberge rouge -- L'Élixir de longue vie -- Maître Cornélius -- Sur Catherine de Médicis: Introduction. Première partie: Le Martyr calviniste.

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"La Comédie humaine - Volume 15. Études philosophiques" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection written between 1829 and 1850. This volume forms part of Balzac's monumental project to create a "natural history of society"—a vast interconnected literary universe of over ninety works exploring social groups and mechanisms of French society. Through hundreds of recurring characters appearing across multiple stories, Balzac crafted an ambitious fresco capturing the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the complexity of human nature in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Paris: Furne, J. J. Dubochet et Cie, J Hetzel, 1845