"At least when an unfortunate is loved, it is of course that we love"

This book marks the beginning of the famous Comedie Humaine which is to circulate the same characters of a novel to the other so that lassemblage stories is the story dune society. It sintéresse the Vauquer pension in the early 19th century Paris. There are some endearing characters like Father Goriot and Eugene de Rastignac and other most execrable which shall remain nameless.
Defects and qualities of mankind are referenced: total love of a father for his daughters, looking for recognition, power, money, hypocrisy A society that seems to have not taken a single white hair today as the description of feelings is right. "Do you know how you make your way here? By léclat engineering or the address of corruption. We must enter this mass dhommes like a cannonball, or drag sy like a plague. Honesty is useless. "Being the first novel I read Balzac, I have no point of comparison with his other works; However, this story deserves to be known and can not leave you indifferent.