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Father Goriot

Chapter 4: ADDENDUM
By Honoré de Balzac
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The story follows an elderly, impoverished man whose self-sacrifice for his daughters leaves him socially abandoned, and a young law student who takes lodgings in the same shabby Paris boarding-house. The lodging-house functions as a microcosm of urban life, exposing petty rivalries, hidden ambitions, and the moral compromises people make to advance. The older man's physical and emotional decline and his treatment by family members contrast with the student's gradual loss of innocence and pragmatic turn toward social climbing. Realist attention to setting and character sketches yields a bleak, detailed portrait of class divisions and the personal costs of ambition in Paris.





ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

     Ajuda-Pinto, Marquis Miguel d’
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Secrets of a Princess
       Beatrix

     Beauseant, Marquis
       An Episode under the Terror

     Beauseant, Vicomte de
       The Deserted Woman

     Beauseant, Vicomtesse de
       The Deserted Woman
       Albert Savarus

     Bianchon, Horace
       The Atheist’s Mass
       Cesar Birotteau
       The Commission in Lunacy
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       A Bachelor’s Establishment
       The Secrets of a Princess
       The Government Clerks
       Pierrette
       A Study of Woman
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       Honorine
       The Seamy Side of History
       The Magic Skin
       A Second Home
       A Prince of Bohemia
       Letters of Two Brides
       The Muse of the Department
       The Imaginary Mistress
       The Middle Classes
       Cousin Betty
       The Country Parson
     In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
       Another Study of Woman
       La Grande Breteche

     Bibi-Lupin (chief of secret police, called himself Gondureau)
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

     Carigliano, Marechal, Duc de
       Sarrasine

     Collin, Jacques
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Member for Arcis

     Derville
       Gobseck
       A Start in Life
       The Gondreville Mystery
       Colonel Chabert
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

     Franchessini, Colonel
       The Member for Arcis

     Galathionne, Princess
       A Daughter of Eve

     Gobseck, Jean-Esther Van
       Gobseck
       Cesar Birotteau
       The Government Clerks
       The Unconscious Humorists

     Jacques (M. de Beauseant’s butler)
       The Deserted Woman

     Langeais, Duchesse Antoinette de
       The Thirteen

     Marsay, Henri de
       The Thirteen
       The Unconscious Humorists
       Another Study of Woman
       The Lily of the Valley
       Jealousies of a Country Town
       Ursule Mirouet
       A Marriage Settlement
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       Letters of Two Brides
       The Ball at Sceaux
       Modest Mignon
       The Secrets of a Princess
       The Gondreville Mystery
       A Daughter of Eve

     Maurice (de Restaud’s valet)
       Gobseck

     Montriveau, General Marquis Armand de
       The Thirteen
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       Another Study of Woman
       Pierrette
       The Member for Arcis

     Nucingen, Baron Frederic de
       The Firm of Nucingen
       Pierrette
       Cesar Birotteau
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       Another Study of Woman
       The Secrets of a Princess
       A Man of Business
       Cousin Betty
       The Muse of the Department
       The Unconscious Humorists

     Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de
       The Thirteen
       Eugenie Grandet
       Cesar Birotteau
       Melmoth Reconciled
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       The Commission in Lunacy
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       Modeste Mignon
       The Firm of Nucingen
       Another Study of Woman
       A Daughter of Eve
       The Member for Arcis

     Poiret
       The Government Clerks
       A Start in Life
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Middle Classes

     Poiret, Madame (nee Christine-Michelle Michonneau)
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Middle Classes

     Rastignac, Baron and Baronne de (Eugene’s parents)
       Lost Illusions

     Rastignac, Eugene de
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Ball at Sceaux
       The Interdiction
       A Study of Woman
       Another Study of Woman
       The Magic Skin
       The Secrets of a Princess
       A Daughter of Eve
       The Gondreville Mystery
       The Firm of Nucingen
       Cousin Betty
       The Member for Arcis
       The Unconscious Humorists

     Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de
       Lost Illusions
       The Member for Arcis

     Rastignac, Monseigneur Gabriel de
       The Country Parson
       A Daughter of Eve

     Restaud, Comte de
       Gobseck

     Restaud, Comtesse Anastasie de
       Gobseck

     Selerier
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

     Taillefer, Jean-Frederic
       The Firm of Nucingen
       The Magic Skin
       The Red Inn

     Taillefer, Victorine
       The Red Inn

     Therese
       A Daughter of Eve

     Tissot, Pierre-Francois
       A Prince of Bohemia

     Trailles, Comte Maxime de
       Cesar Birotteau
       Gobseck
       Ursule Mirouet
       A Man of Business
       The Member for Arcis
       The Secrets of a Princess
       Cousin Betty
       The Member for Arcis
       Beatrix
       The Unconscious Humorists