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Modeste Mignon

by Honoré de Balzac

Modeste Mignon is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the fifth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The first part of the novel was serialized in a bowdlerized edition in the Journal des débats in April, May and July 1844. A revised and expanded version of the work was later published by Chlenowski in two parts under the titles Modeste Mignon and Les Trois amoureux (The Three Suitors). The third and final edition of the novel appeared in 1846 as part of Furne's complete edition of La Comédie humaine. Modeste Mignon was the third work in Volume 4, or the twenty-third of the Scènes de la vie privée.

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English

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French

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1844

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Honoré de was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus....

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02 - A Portrait from Life
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03 - Preliminaries
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04 - A Simple Story
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05 - The Problem Still Unsolved
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06 - A Maiden's First Romance
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07 - A Poet of the Angelic School
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08 - Blade to Blade
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09 - The Power of the Unseen
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10 - The Marriage of Souls
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11 - What Comes of Correspondence
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12 - A Declaration of Love, Set to Music
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13 - A Full-Length Portrait of Monsieur de la Briere
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14 - Matters Grown Complicated
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15 - A Father Steps in
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16 - Disenchanted
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17 - A Third Suitor
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18 - A Splendid First Appearance
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19 - Of which the Author Thinks a Good Deal
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20 - The Poet Does his Exercises
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21 - Modeste Plays her Part
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22 - A Riddle Guessed
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23 - Butscha Distinguishes himself
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24 - The Poet Feels that he is Loved too Well
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25 - A Diplomatic Letter
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26 - True Love
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27 - A Girl's Revenge
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28 - Modeste Behaves with Dignity
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29 - Conclusion
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