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.
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]