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Gobseck

Chapter 4: ADDENDUM
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A Paris attorney recounts the rise and practices of a shrewd moneylender whose calculations and secrecy govern the fates of several household and social clients. Through episodes of loans, inheritances, romantic entanglements, and legal interventions, the narrative traces how obsession with money warps personal relations, exposes social hypocrisy, and dictates moral choices. The usurer's stingy principles and final dispositions prompt reflection on legacy, conscience, and the corrosive power of avarice within a hierarchical society, while the teller's involvement underscores the blurred line between legal propriety and intimate loyalty.





ADDENDUM

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

     Bidault (known as Gigonnet)
       The Government Clerks
       The Vendetta
       Cesar Birotteau
       The Firm of Nucingen
       A Daughter of Eve

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

     Derville, Madame
       Cesar Birotteau

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

     Gobseck, Sarah Van
       Cesar Birotteau
       The Maranas
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       The Member for Arcis

     Gobseck, Esther Van
       The Firm of Nucingen
       A Bachelor’s Establishment
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

     Grandlieu, Vicomtesse de
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       Colonel Chabert

     Grandlieu, Vicomte Juste de
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

     Grandlieu, Vicomtesse Juste de
       Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
       A Daughter of Eve

     Maurice (de Restaud’s valet)
       Father Goriot

     Palma (banker)
       The Firm of Nucingen
       Cesar Birotteau
       Lost Illusions
       A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
       The Ball at Sceaux

     Restaud, Comte de
       Father Goriot

     Restaud, Comtesse Anastasie de
       Father Goriot

     Restaud, Ernest de
       The Member for Arcis

     Restaud, Madame Ernest de
       The Member for Arcis

     Restaud, Felix-Georges de
       The Member for Arcis

     Trailles, Comte Maxime de
       Cesar Birotteau
       Father Goriot
       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