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

Release date is 2024-05-06

Études philosophiques: Sur Catherine de Médicis (seconde partie). Les proscrits. Louis Lambert. Sépraphita -- Études analytiques: Physiologie du mariage.

Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

"La Comédie humaine - Volume 16. Études philosophiques et Études analytiques" by Honoré de Balzac is part of a monumental literary project written between 1829 and 1850. This volume belongs to Balzac's ambitious attempt to create a "natural history of society," systematically exploring social groups through over 90 interconnected works. Hundreds of recurring characters weave through these stories, depicting the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the complexity of human nature in a non-moralistic universe where society crushes the weak while corrupt bankers and politicians triumph. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Paris: Furne, J. J. Dubochet et Cie, J Hetzel, 1846