ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of
the Human Comedy.
Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist’s Mass
Cesar Birotteau
T...
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The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Common...
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Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation f...
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FIFA is backing down from its ban on international soccer matches in Bolivia's capital of La Paz.FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Friday he was responding to a request from Bolivian President Evo M...
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of La Paz on Friday to protest efforts to relocate Bolivia's capital in one of the largest demonstrations in the history of the Andean country.Aer...
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National maps give them both a star, but for more than a century, the seat of Bolivia's government has been in high-altitude La Paz. Now Sucre, a provincial lowland city where the highest courts ar...
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Federal prosecutors want to return to Mexico a federal inmate they say confessed to killing at least 10 women in a border city there as "offerings to Satan."The U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg...
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A fire blamed on illegally sold firecrackers swept through a department store in the central Philippines on Christmas Day, killing 24 people who took refuge in a restroom, police said Tuesday.The b...
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of
Bolivian leader Evo Morales marched through the streets of La
Paz Wednesday shouting slogans against the opposition, days
after Morales' foes called f...
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La Paz (dpa) - Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday that he
suspects paramilitary groups killed civilians in Sucre, where clashes
over the country's constitution took ...
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FIFA backs down from La Paz altitude ban
