Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d ' or ( 1835 ), a part of La Comédie Humaine, who fulfills at first the model of a perfect dandy, until an obsessive love-pursuit unravels him in passionate and murderous jealousy.

fr: La Divine Comédie

His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.

La Comédie humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.

Balzac worked these scenes from his boyhood – as he did many aspects of his life and the lives of those around him – into La Comédie Humaine.

American critic Samuel Rogers, however, notes that " without the training they gave Balzac, as he groped his way to his mature conception of the novel, and without the habit he formed as a young man of writing under pressure, one can hardly imagine his producing La Comédie Humaine.

In the preface to La Comédie Humaine he wrote: " Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order.

" Although he originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( Study of Mores ), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, and he included in it all the fiction that he had published in his lifetime under his own name.

The influence of Paris permeates La Comédie.

The centrality of Paris in La Comédie Humaine is key to Balzac's legacy as a realist.

Selected titles from La Comédie humaine

Unlike Balzac who in the midst of his literary career resynthesized his work into La Comédie Humaine, Zola from the start at the age of 28 had thought of the complete layout of the series.

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

* La Comédie de la Mort, published in 1838, is a period piece much like Albertus.

* 1838: La Comédie de la mort

* La Comédie humaine, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays by Honoré de Balzac, set during the Restoration and the July Monarchy

* La Valse des toréadors, Paris, Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 9 January 1952.

The French artist Meissonnier made two paintings showing people playing the game, and Honoré de Balzac described a match in La Comédie Humaine.

Balzac also pays homage to Rabelais by quoting him in more than twenty novels and the short stories of La Comédie humaine ( The Human Comedy ).

* La Comédie de Picardie

While in Montreal, Brel appeared with Raymond Devos at La Comédie Canadienne.

After 1851, he occupied himself with La Divine Comédie, a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy and refused several attempts to reconcile him to the Church.

At the turn of the century, Saintsbury edited and introduced an English edition of Honoré de Balzac's novel series La Comédie humaine, translated by Ellen Marriage and published in 1895-8 by J. M. Dent.

* La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux-1995

Cocteau's experiments with the human voice peaked with his play La Voix humaine.

La Voix humaine was written, in effect, as an extravagant aria for Madame Berthe Bovy.

La Voix humaine is deceptively simple — a woman alone on stage for almost one hour of non-stop theatre speaking on the telephone with her departing lover.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

* 1930: La Voix humaine

* Collection of three vinyl recordings of Jean Cocteau including La Voix humaine by Simone Signoret, 18 songs composed by Louis Bessières, Bee Michelin and Renaud Marx, on double-piano Paul Castanier, Le Discours de réception à l ' Académie Française, Jacques Canetti JC1, 1984

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* André Malraux — Man's Fate ( 1934 ) ( La Condition humaine, 1933 )

* La Condition humaine, 1933 ( Man's Fate, 1934 )

With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on ; he visited La Beauce ( for La Terre ), Sedan, Ardennes ( for La Débâcle ) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre ( when researching La Bête humaine ).

It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.

The mine, the still in L ' Assommoir and the locomotive La Lison in La Bête humaine impress the reader with the vivid reality of human beings.

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

Haute cuisine (, " high cuisine ") has foundations during the 17th century with a chef named La Varenne.

The Primera División ( First Division ) of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional ( LFP ), commonly known in the English-speaking world as La Liga (, The League ), and officially named for sponsorship reasons Liga BBVA ( BBVA League ) is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system.

The Bayeux Tapestry (,, Norman: La telle du conquest ) is an embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — nearly long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

La Seu d ' Urgell (, ;, formerly in ) is a town located in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain.

La Sainte-Chapelle (, The Holy Chapel ) is one of the only surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France ( the others being those of the Conciergerie ).

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (, 28 February 1683 La Rochelle – 17 October 1757 Saint-Julien-du-Terroux ) was a French scientist who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects.

La Louvière (, ) is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

L ' église de la Madeleine (, Madeleine Church ; more formally, L ' église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine ; less formally, just La Madeleine ) is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Umm al-Faraj (, known to the Crusaders as La Fierge ) was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.

Teatro La Fenice (, " The Phoenix ") is an opera house in Venice, Italy.

La Rive Gauche (, The Left Bank ) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris.

Le Père Goriot (, Old Goriot or Father Goriot ) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ), included in the Scènes de la vie Parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

La Paz (, The Peace ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur and an important regional commercial center.

Palacio de La Moneda (, Mint Palace ), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile.

La Haine (, ' hate ') is a 1995 French black-and-white drama / suspense film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

Altorricón () or El Torricó (, ) is a municipality located in the comarca of La Litera / La Llitera in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.

La Litera () or La Llitera (, ) () is an Aragonese comarca in the south-east of the province of Huesca.

La Franja (,, ; " The Strip ") is the area of Catalan-speaking territories of Aragon bordering Catalonia, in Spain.

La Massana (, ; originally La Maçana ) is one of the seven parishes of the Principality of Andorra.

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