The daughter of a miserly merchant from the town of Saumur, her life is changed when her cousin Charles, whose impoverished father has just committed suicide, comes to stay.
The daughter of a miserly merchant from the town of Saumur, her life is changed when her cousin Charles, whose impoverished father has just committed suicide, comes to stay. She falls in love with him, and gives him her private treasure of gold coins to recoup his fortunes in the West Indies, but the end he betrays her and she ends up alone and as miserly as her father. Such is a description of, FTP, what title character of an 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac?
The daughter of a miserly merchant from the town of Saumur, her life is changed when her cousin Charles, whose impoverished father has just committed suicide, comes to stay.
Eugenie Grandet