Eugénie Grandet (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Honoré Balzac
- First Published: 1833
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Saumur, France
- Principal Characters: Monsieur Grandet, Eugénie, Charles Grandet, Nanon, Monsieur de Grassins, Monsieur Cruchot
- Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Fathers, Greed, Money, Loneliness, Wealth
- Locales: France
The Story:
In the French town of Saumur, old Grandet was a prominent personality, and the story of his rise to fortune was known throughout the district. He was a master cooper who had married the daughter of a prosperous wood merchant. When the new French Republic offered for sale the church property in Saumur, Grandet used his savings and his wife’s dowry to buy the old abbey, a fine vineyard, and several farms. Under the consulate, he became mayor and grew still more wealthy. In 1806, he inherited three additional fortunes from the deaths of his wife’s mother,...
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