Félicien Marceau Books

Marseille, Genève, Venise, Rome, Londres, Berlin, Paris... A peine mariés, Figaro et Suzanne, les héros de Beaumarchais, se lancent dans un tour d'Europe ahurissant. Leur voyage de noce ne fait pourtant que commencer... A la vitesse des diligences qui les transportent, d'aventures cocasses en rencontres imprévues, de gaffes rocambolesques en enlèvements spectaculaires, jeune couple n'en finit pas de se perdre... Et de se retrouver ! Le comte Almaviva, commanditaire de la folle équipée, se garde bien, lui, d'intervenir. Pourtant, dans le sillage de la jeune épousée, un ange gardien veille... Ou peut-être un espion... " Peste ! se dit Figaro in petto, qu'est-ce que ça cache ? " Le pauvre homme n'est pas encore au bout de ses surprises !

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.

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