The narrator often notes that the owner of this work's central locale was "born a Conflans, no less." In one of its subplots, a doctor raises Rousseau's postulate of willing an old Mandarin to be killed to enrich oneself, in reference to the death of Monsieur Taillefer's as part of a scheme by Jacques Collin. Its title character's epitaph says that he was buried at the exp
The narrator often notes that the owner of this work's central locale was "born a Conflans, no less." In one of its subplots, a doctor raises Rousseau's postulate of willing an old Mandarin to be killed to enrich oneself, in reference to the death of Monsieur Taillefer's as part of a scheme by Jacques Collin. Its title character's epitaph says that he was buried at the expense of two university students, despite being the father-in-law of the Count de Restaud and Baron de Nucingen; their cruelty keeps his daughters away from the Maison Vacquer boarding house, leaving him alone with Eugene Rastignac. For 10 points, name this entry in Balzac's The Human Comedy about a doting father.
The narrator often notes that the owner of this work's central locale was "born a Conflans, no less."
Pere Goriot [or Old Goriot or Father Goriot]