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Pierrette / The Vicar of Tours

by Honoré de Balzac

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Series: Scenes from Provincial Life (4-5), Studies of Manners (31-32), The Human Comedy (27-28)

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Pierrette, un des drames les plus sombres de La Come die humaine, nous montre comment les calculs de la sottise et de l'avarice aboutissent au meurtre d'un enfant. Le Cure de Tours met en pre sence les deux cate gories d'e tres dans lesquels les poisons du ce libat se de veloppent de la manie re la plus redoutable : la vieille fille et le pre tre. Remarquable document politique sur la puissance de l'E glise sous la Restauration, Le Cure de Tours illustre en me me temps le postulat balzacien selon lequel les existences les plus obscures rece lent autant de violence que les trage dies de l'histoire : le terrible abbe Troubert qui conduit a la mort l'innocent abbe Birotteau, c'est ℗±Sixte Quint re duit aux proportions d'un e ve che ℗ ."… (more)
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Pierrette, un des drames les plus sombres de La Come die humaine, nous montre comment les calculs de la sottise et de l'avarice aboutissent au meurtre d'un enfant. Le Cure de Tours met en pre sence les deux cate gories d'e tres dans lesquels les poisons du ce libat se de veloppent de la manie re la plus redoutable : la vieille fille et le pre tre. Remarquable document politique sur la puissance de l'E glise sous la Restauration, Le Cure de Tours illustre en me me temps le postulat balzacien selon lequel les existences les plus obscures rece lent autant de violence que les trage dies de l'histoire : le terrible abbe Troubert qui conduit a la mort l'innocent abbe Birotteau, c'est ℗±Sixte Quint re duit aux proportions d'un e ve che ℗ ."

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