The French word 'rastignac' that describes an ambitious social climber is from the name of a character in the La Comédie humaine series of novels by which author?
"La Fausse Maîtresse La Fausse Maîtresse is an 1843 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or ""Roman-fleuve"") known as ""La Comédie humaine"" (""The Human Comedy"") which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). The plot is subtle and complex, and the true explanation is carefully hidden until the end of the book. Clementine is a descendent of rich and noble families whose wealth has been dissipated. She married Count Laginski a Polish immigrant who is quite prosperous. They are a"
"Eugène de Rastignac Eugène de Rastignac is a fictional character from ""La Comédie humaine"", a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in ""Le Père Goriot"" (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series. Rastignac is initially portrayed as an ambitious young man of noble, albeit poor, extraction who is at times both envious of and naive about high society. Although he is ready to do anything to achieve his goals, he spurns the advice of"
"considered when the Hulot family seek to have Wenceslas Steinbock's artistic talents recognised. Eugène de Rastignac Eugène de Rastignac is a fictional character from ""La Comédie humaine"", a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in ""Le Père Goriot"" (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series. Rastignac is initially portrayed as an ambitious young man of noble, albeit poor, extraction who is at times both envious of and naive about high society. Although he is"
"clever and skillful social climber, Rastignac knows both how to use people and how eliminate his competition. 1822–1824 – ""Le Cabinet des Antiques"" (1837) – Rastignac appears as one of the dandies that Victurnien d'Esgrignon falls in with during his sojourn in Paris. 1823 – ""Etude de Femme"" (1835) – A short anecdote narrated by Bianchon. Rastignac is described as ""one of those extremely clever young men who try all things, and seem to sound others to discover what the future has in store"". The anecdote describes a series of errors committed by Rastignac and attributes them to his inexperience."
"Vautrin (the series' dark criminal mastermind) and instead uses his own wits and charm (especially through relationships with women, such as his cousin Madame de Beauséant) to arrive at his ends. His eventual social success in the fictional world of the ""Comédie humaine"" is frequently contrasted with the tragic failure of another young parvenu in the series: Lucien de Rubempré (who accepts the aid of Vautrin and ends his life by his own hands). In French today, to refer to someone as a ""Rastignac"" is to call him or her an ambitious ""arriviste"" or social climber. The following list is"
"model for Eugène de Rastignac, one of the main characters in the ""La Comédie humaine"" of Honoré de Balzac. The character appears in twenty-eight of Balzac's novels. Rastignac's rapid rise from poverty to success in finance and politics, and his unusual family life, parallel those of Thiers. Following the death of Thiers, Gustave Flaubert wrote about the massive crowds that appeared at his funeral. ""This truly national demonstration greatly struck me. I did not like this king of the bourgeois, but it doesn't matter. Compared with the others who surrounded him, he was a giant, and in addition he had"
"that gives the novel its particular tone"". Rastignac, Vautrin, and Goriot represent individuals corrupted by their desires. In his thirst for advancement, Rastignac has been compared to Faust, with Vautrin as Mephistopheles. Critic Pierre Barbéris calls Vautrin's lecture to Rastignac ""one of the great moments of the ""Comédie humaine"", and no doubt of all world literature"". France's social upheaval provides Vautrin with a playground for an ideology based solely on personal advancement; he encourages Rastignac to follow suit. Still, it is the larger social structure that finally overwhelms Rastignac's soul – Vautrin merely explains the methods and causes. Although he"
"feeling embarrassed. For the next few days Madame de Listomère does not attend any social events, and Bianchon closes the story saying that he has been treating her for a slight attack of nerves, which she has been using as an excuse to stay home. Rastignac and Bianchon appear in several novels and stories of ""La Comédie humaine"", especially ""Le Père Goriot"" in which Rastignac is the main character. Étude de femme Étude de femme (English ""Study of a Woman"") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830 and is one of the ""Scènes de"
"organized with, first, the date on which Rastignac features, the title of the book in which Rastignac appears, followed by the date the book was written. 1819 – ""Le Père Goriot"" (1835) – Rastignac is a 21-year-old student in Paris. He makes his first forays into high society (drawing on his family's resources to the full), is tempted by but rejects the machinations of Vautrin, and is confronted by cynicism and falseness in the people he meets. Initially desiring the Comtesse Anastasie de Restaud (daughter of Father Goriot), he is persuaded to become the lover of her sister Delphine (wife"
"Peau de Chagrin"" (1831) – Rastignac appears indirectly when Raphael de Valentin narrates his life to Emile Blondet. Rastignac's friendship and support for Raphael is vastly different from his treatment of Lucien. Although both are talented and poor, Raphael is a Marquis and cousin to the Duc de Navarrein. Rastignac was planning to marry a rich widow, but changes his mind when he finds that her income was only 18,000 francs and she had an extra toe. 1838–1846 – ""La Cousine Bette"" (1847) – Rastignac does not appear personally, but is so influential that he is among the first people"
"Rastignac instead. The relationship between teacher and student in ""La Peau de chagrin"" is mirrored in ""Le Père Goriot"", when the young Rastignac is guided in the ways of social ""realpolitik"" by the incognito criminal Vautrin. Balzac used the character Foedora in three other stories, but eventually wrote her out of them after deciding on other models for social femininity. In later editions of ""La Peau de chagrin"", he changed the text to name one of the bankers ""Taillefer"", whom he had introduced in ""L'Auberge rouge"" (1831). He also used the name Horace Bianchon for one of the doctors, thus"
"each novel) called ""La Grande Intrigue"" (The Big Plot), reviving a French classical literature tradition (La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac, Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola). Following the evolution of five families through five generations, this work will be completed in 2010, celebrating the Taillandier's fifty-fifth anniversary. Telling, the second novel of this series was published in 2006. He currently writes for French newspapers Le Figaro, l'Humanité et la Montagne and keeps developing ""La Grande Intrigue"", writing """"only when everybody is sleeping"""". François Taillandier François Taillandier (born in 1955, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French writer portraying the French contemporary"
"the coldly dispassionate and brutally realistic strategies required for social success. As an everyman, he is initially repulsed by the gruesome realities beneath society's gilded surfaces; eventually, however, he embraces them. Setting aside his original goal of mastering the law, he pursues money and women as instruments for social climbing. In some ways this mirrors Balzac's own social education, reflecting the distaste he acquired for the law after studying it for three years. ""Le Père Goriot"", especially in its revised form, marks an important early instance of Balzac's trademark use of recurring characters: persons from earlier novels appear in later"
"aspire to a title, while people with titles aspire to the peerage. The opening section of The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan provides an explanation of why the title of prince is not prevalent nor coveted in France (compared to contemporary Germany or Russia). Two young men dominate the ""Comédie humaine"": Lucien de Rubempré and Eugène de Rastignac. Both are talented but poor youths from the provinces, both attempt to achieve greatness in society through the intercession of women and both come into contact with Vautrin, but only Rastignac succeeds while Lucien de Rubempré ends his life by his own"
"""Pere Goriot"". The following problem may be due to the book having been finished by another person: ""Given the chronology set out above, it is not clear when Rastignac could have been a minister for the first time. It is possible that the finisher has mistakenly counted Rastignac's previous position as Under-Secretary of State as his first ministry. Comments made by Raoul Nathan in Une Fille d'Eve make it clear that this is not the case."" 1845 – ""Les Comédiens sans le Savoir"" (1845) – Rastignac is 48. The caricaturist Bixiou says of him: ""he has 300,000 francs of annual"
"small clues about their identity. Vautrin, for example, slips in and out of the story – offering advice to Rastignac, ridiculing Goriot, bribing the housekeeper Christophe to let him in after hours – before he is revealed as a master criminal. This pattern of people moving in and out of view mirrors Balzac's use of characters throughout ""La Comédie humaine"". ""Le Père Goriot"" is also recognized as a ""bildungsroman"", wherein a naive young person matures while learning the ways of the world. Rastignac is tutored by Vautrin, Madame de Beauséant, Goriot, and others about the truth of Parisian society and"
"of politics, an acute mind seeking to do good in the public sphere. One critic calls him ""ambition in its pure state"". Like other persons of genius in ""La Comédie humaine"", Marcas is seen as a reflection of Balzac's own ego and desire. Like Marcas, the author dreamed of fame and positive influence; as Balzac believed himself to be, the character is dismissed and manipulated by mediocre minds. Even their work habits – toiling at their desks throughout the night – are similar. Balzac began using characters from earlier works in his 1835 novel ""Le Père Goriot"", and made the"
"La Comédie humaine La Comédie humaine (, ""The Human Comedy"") is the title of Honoré de Balzac's (1799–1850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). The ""Comédie humaine"" consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the ""Contes drolatiques"" (1832–37). The title of the series is usually considered an allusion to Dante's ""Divine Comedy""; while Ferdinand Brunetière, the"
"Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (; , born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ""La Comédie humaine"", which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his ""magnum opus"". Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris,"
"The woman in question is the Marquise de Listomere, née Vandenesse. ""The date is problematic: Rastignac is 25; however the Morea expedition (commenced 1828) is discussed."" 18?? – ""Autre Etude de Femme"" (1842) – 1824–1830 – ""Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes"" (1838–1847) – Rastignac appears at the start (on Lucien's return to Paris) and at the end (at Lucien's funeral). 18?? – ""Un Ménage de Garçon"" also titled ""La Rabouilleuse"" (1842) – 1829 – ""Ursule Mirouet"" (1842) – Rastignac appears as one of the dandies whom Savinien de Portenduere falls in with during his sojourn in Paris. 1829–1831 – ""La"
"on proofs he received from publishers, so that the later editions of his novels were often significantly different from the earliest. In the case of ""Le Père Goriot"", he changed a number of the characters into persons from other novels he had written, and added new paragraphs filled with detail. The character Eugène de Rastignac had appeared as an old man in Balzac's earlier philosophical fantasy novel ""La Peau de chagrin"". While writing the first draft of ""Le Père Goriot"", Balzac named the character ""Massiac"", but he decided to use the same character from ""La Peau de chagrin"". Other characters"
"Honorine (novel) Honorine is an 1843 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or ""Roman-fleuve"") known as ""La Comédie humaine"" (""The Human Comedy"") which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). Balzac has a subtle way of approaching his plot indirectly and embedding a story within a story. The story is perhaps a common one of a wife trapped in a marriage, but is approached in an interesting manner. Maurice is a Consul at Gênes/Genoa, a Mediterranean town where he has"
"Louis-Charles Caigniez Louis-Charles Caigniez (13 April 1762 – 19 February 1842) was a 19th-century French playwright. Endowed with a real talent for the stage, Caigniez competed on the boulevard theaters with René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt and was nicknamed ""the Racine of melodrama"", of which Pixérécourt was called the Corneille. Caigniez literary taste was enough to succeed in more delicate works. His three-act comedy ""Volage"" presented in 1807 at the Théâtre Louvois and his ""Méprise en diligence"", another three-act comedy given at the Théâtre Favart in 1819, are notable by their original and comic situations. The main success of this"
"died shortly after departing. The story is full of discussion about the meaning of relationships and Maurice acts throughout as interpreter for the two parties. There is also the implication that he had in fact fallen in love with Honorine himself, which is why he avoided marriage initially. Honorine (novel) Honorine is an 1843 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or ""Roman-fleuve"") known as ""La Comédie humaine"" (""The Human Comedy"") which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). Balzac has"
"Vautrin Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin . He appears in the novels ""Le Père Goriot"" (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in ""Illusions perdues"" (Lost illusions, 1837–43) and ""Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes"" (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–44), the sequel of ""Illusions perdues"", under the name of ""Abbé Carlos Herrera"". In prison, he got the nickname ""Trompe-la-Mort"" (""Dodgedeath"" or ""Cheats-Death""), because he managed to avoid the death sentence repeatedly. By the time the ""Comédie humaine"" series begins,"
"well as the envious."" As was his custom, he revised the novel between editions; compared to other novels, however, ""Le Père Goriot"" remained largely unchanged from its initial version. In the years following its release, the novel was often adapted for the stage. Two theatrical productions in 1835 – several months after the book's publication – sustained its popularity and increased the public's regard for Balzac. In the 20th century, a number of film versions were produced, including adaptations directed by Travers Vale (1915), Jacques de Baroncelli (1922), and Paddy Russell (1968). The name of Rastignac, meanwhile, has become an"
"of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction. The novel is also noted as an example of his realist style, using minute details to create character and subtext. The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major theme in the book. The city of Paris also impresses itself on the characters – especially young Rastignac, who grew up in the provinces of southern France. Balzac analyzes, through Goriot and others, the nature of family and"
"all society, sketching it in the immensity of its turmoil"". Although he had prepared only a small predecessor for ""La Comédie humaine"", entitled ""Études de Mœurs"", at this time, Balzac carefully considered each work's place in the project and frequently rearranged its structure. The novel opens with an extended description of the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris' ""rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève"" covered with vines, owned by the widow Madame Vauquer. The residents include the law student Eugène de Rastignac, a mysterious agitator named Vautrin, and an elderly retired vermicelli-maker named Jean-Joachim Goriot. The old man is ridiculed frequently by the"
"rejects Vautrin's offer of murder, Rastignac succumbs to the principles of brutality upon which high society is built. By the end of the novel, he tells Bianchon: ""I'm in Hell, and I have no choice but to stay there."" While Rastignac desires wealth and social status, Goriot longs only for the love of his daughters: a longing that borders on idolatry. Because he represents bourgeois wealth acquired through trade – and not aristocratic primitive accumulation – his daughters are happy to take his money, but will see him only in private. Even as he is dying in extreme poverty, at"
"are discrete enough to qualify as a novel sequence. For example, the Barchester novels of Anthony Trollope are only loosely related, although they contain a recurring cast of characters; his political novels about the Pallisers have a tighter connection and dynamic. A strict definition might exclude both. The novel sequence was a product of the nineteenth century, with James Fenimore Cooper's works appearing in the 1820s, and Anthony Trollope's Barchester books in the 1850s. In French literature, Honoré de Balzac's ambitious ""La Comédie humaine,"" a set of nearly 100 novels, novellas and short stories with some recurring characters, started to"
"""balzacian"", referring to his obsession with social recognition. His first novel, ""Messieurs"", published in 1979 (and 30 years later ""Votre serviteur"" in 2015) included a vivid description of the french high-society . While attending the Sciences-Po in Paris in 1977, he registered a few blocks away at the Beaux-Arts school in sculpture and in the studio run by . Though socially involved in Paris, Rome and Venice (""Montefalco"", 1980), he still managed to write a daily column in Le Figaro and published a novel every year, often depicting father/son ambiguous relationships with older churchmen, writers, veterans, war pilots, later portrayed"
"the names of all the characters of Balzac's ""Comédie Humaine"", together with the salient points in their lives. Balzac made his characters appear again and again, thus creating out of his distinct novels a miniature world. The work of Cerfberr and Christophe is a guide to that world. Anatole Cerfberr Anatole Cerfberr (1835, Paris—1896, Neuilly) was a French journalist and author. Under various pseudonyms, among which were ""Arthur Clary,"" ""Antoine Cerlier,"" and ""Fulgence Ridal,"" he contributed to numerous papers. He was an admirer of Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo, an ardent socialist, and well versed in matters concerning the"
"Colonel Chabert (novel) Le Colonel Chabert (English: ""Colonel Chabert"") is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or ""Roman-fleuve"") known as ""La Comédie humaine"" (""The Human Comedy""), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). This novella, originally published in ""Le Constitutionnel"", was adapted for six different motion pictures, including two silent films. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. Colonel Chabert then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte."