A couple embodies the clash between the old aristocratic world and the new bourgeois world

The main advantage of this new is the fact that there is a sociological and political reading in addition to the apparent love affair.

Indeed, I want to put the political context surrounding the time when Balzac produced this story. We are in 1830, the July Monarchy (placing the Bourgeoisie at the top of the country) has just replaced by a "coup" the Legitimist Bourbon Monarchy (after the restoration from 1815 to 1830). Amid this change of regime, Balzac was to legitimist affinity is regretted laccession the power of the July Monarchy embodied in his summit of bourgeois illusion.

Thus, "The House Cat and Racket" can be understood as a reaction to what Balzac political moment since it describes a love story where there is one side: Theodore Sommervieux is an aristocrat, painter, filled with classical culture (Greek, Latin, etc.); then the other side: William Augustine who is the daughter of Mr. Guillaume (boss of "La Maison du chat and Racket") is owned by this new world of the bourgeoisie where a sub account in a in a vision bourgeois, austere and realistic things far from the idealism of a flighty aristocrat.

In sum, through Theodore Sommervieux and Augustine Guillaume, we have the clash between the old aristocratic world (with its strengths and weaknesses) and the new bourgeois world (with other qualities and other defects). Politically incompatible according to Balzac, this love story she would not be a metaphor?