La Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 creator text utu 2016 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Comédie humaine - Volume 07. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 03" by Honoré de Balzac is part of a multi-volume collection written between 1829-1848. This volume belongs to the "Scenes from Provincial Life" section of Balzac's ambitious project depicting French society during the Restoration and July Monarchy periods. The work explores the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the dissolution of social ties through vivid characters and keen social observation, portraying aspects of life previously ignored in literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Les rivalités (première histoire): La Vieille Fille -- Les rivalités (deuxième histoire): Le Cabinet des Antiques -- Le Lys dans la Vallée. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine Release date is 2016-08-18 Produced by Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52831 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52831 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134222.0 52831