The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix

APPENDIX

THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE

The form in which the Comedie Humaine was left by its author, with the exceptions of Le Depute d'Arcis (incomplete) and Les Petits Bourgeois, both of which were added, some years later, by the Edition Definitive.

The original French titles are followed by their English equivalents. Literal translations have been followed, excepting a few instances where preference is shown for a clearer or more comprehensive English title.

[Note from Team Balzac, the Etext preparers: In some cases more than one English translation is commonly used for various translations/editions. In such cases the first translation is from the Saintsbury edition copyrighted in 1901 and that is the title referred to in the personages following most of the stories. We have added other title translations of which we are currently aware for the readers' convenience.]

SCENES DE LA VIE PRIVEE

SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du Chat-qui Pelote)

The Ball at Sceaux (Le Bal de Sceaux)

The Purse (La Bourse)

Vendetta (La Vendetta)

Madame Firmiani (Mme. Firmiani)

A Second Home (Une Double Famille)

Domestic Peace (La Paix du Menage)

Paz (La Fausse Maitresse)

Study of a Woman (Etude de femme)

Another Study of Woman (Autre etude de femme)

The Grand Breteche (La Grande Breteche)

Albert Savarus (Albert Savarus)

Letters of Two Brides (Memoires de deux Jeunes Mariees)

A Daughter of Eve (Une Fille d'Eve)

A Woman of Thirty (La Femme de Trente Ans)

The Deserted Woman (La Femme abandonnee)

La Grenadiere (La Grenadiere)

The Message (Le Message)

Gobseck (Gobseck)

The Marriage Contract (Le Contrat de Mariage)

A Start in Life (Un Debut dans la vie)

Modeste Mignon (Modeste Mignon)

Beatrix (Beatrix)

Honorine (Honorine)

Colonel Chabert (Le Colonel Chabert)

The Atheist's Mass (La Messe de l'Athee)

The Commission in Lunacy (L'Interdiction)

Pierre Grassou (Pierre Grassou)

SCENES DE LA VIE PROVINCE

SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE

Ursule Mirouet (Ursule Mirouet)

Eugenie Grandet (Eugenie Grandet)

Pierrette (Les Celibataires, Pierrette)

The Vicar of Tours (Le Cure de Tours)

The Two Brothers, (The Black Sheep) (Un Menage de Garcon, La Rabouilleuse)

The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'illustre Gaudissart, Parisians in the Country)

The Muse of the Department (La Muse du departement)

The Old Maid, Jealousies of a Country Town (La Vieille Fille, Les Rivalites)

The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des antiques)

The Lily of the Valley (Le Lys dans la Vallee)

Two Poets, Lost Illusions: – I. (Les Deux Poetes, Illusions Perdues: – I.)

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un Grand homme de province a Paris, 1re partie)

Eve and David (Eve et David)