Un Début Dans La Vie
''Un début dans la vie'' (''A Start in Life'') is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' (''Scenes of Private Life'') in La Comédie humaine. The novel was serialized in the review ''La Législature'' in 1842 under the title ''Le Danger des mystifications'' (''The Dangers of Gasconade''). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furne edition of ''La Comédie humaine''. ''Un début dans la vie'' was the fifth work in Volume 4, or the twenty-fifth of the ''Scènes de la vie privée''. History Balzac wrote ''Un début dans la vie'' during one of his many visits to the commune of L'Isle-Adam in Val-d'Oise, a few kilometres north of Paris. The novel is based on a short-story by Balzac's sister Laure Surville, which was later published in 1854 under the title ''Le Voyage en coucou'' (''The Journey in a Rickety Carriage''). Balzac recast the story, transforming it into a profound study of human vanity ...
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Oreste Cortazzo
Oreste Cortazzo (26 April 1836, Rome–1910, Paris) was an Italian-born French painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Biography His family originally came from Ceraso, in the Province of Salerno. Around 1848, he began an apprenticeship with his father, Michele (c.1808-1865), who was also a painter and a great admirer of Titian. (Some of Michele's works may be seen at the Palace of Caserta, near Naples.) In 1858, he met Léon Bonnat, who was studying in Rome. When Bonnat returned to Paris in 1860, Cortazzo decided to go with him; to take lessons and work in his studio. Having had a conservative education, he struggled to choose sides in the dispute between the Academicism, Academics and the Impressionists. He initially earned his living doing portraits for a largely bourgeois clientele and producing Genre art, genre scenes on commission for Goupil & Cie.
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Honoré De Balzac (1842)
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his ''magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and continue to inspire other wri ...
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Works Originally Published In French Magazines
Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * John D. Works (1847–1928), California senator and judge * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album), a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album from 1972 * ''Works'', a Status Quo album from 1983 * ''Works'', a John Abercrombie album from 1991 * ''Works'', a Pat Metheny album from 1994 * ''Works'', an Alan Parson Project album from 2002 * ''Works Volume 1'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * ''Works Volume 2'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * '' The Works'', a 1984 Queen album Other uses *Good works, a topic in Christian theology * Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft * IBM Works, an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system * Mount Works The Everett Range () is a rugged, mainly ice-covered range nearly long between Greenwell Glacier and Ebbe Glacier in n ...
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Novels First Published In Serial Form
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused ...
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Books Of La Comédie Humaine
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages Bookbinding, bound together and protected by a Book cover, cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the Clay tablet, tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly Library classification, classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, s ...
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1842 French Novels
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zhang Jue dies of illness while his broth ...
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Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine
A repertory theatre, also called repertory, rep, true rep or stock, which are also called producing theatres, is a theatre in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation. United Kingdom Annie Horniman founded the first modern repertory theatre in Manchester after withdrawing her support from the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Horniman's Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, Gaiety Theatre opened its first season in September 1908. The opening of the Gaiety was followed by the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow, the Liverpool Repertory Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Previously, regional theatre relied on mostly London touring ensembles. During the time the theatre was being run by Annie Horniman, a wide variety of types of plays were produced. Horniman encouraged local writers who became known as the Manchester School (writers), Manchester School of playwrights. They included Allan Monkhouse, Harold Brighouse—writer of ''Hobson ...
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Pontoise
Pontoise () is a commune north of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise. Administration Pontoise is the official (capital) of the Val-d'Oise '' département'', although in reality the ''préfecture'' building and administration, as well as the department council (''conseil général''), are located in the neighboring commune of Cergy, which is regarded as the ''de facto'' capital of Val-d'Oise. Pontoise is also the seat of the Arrondissement of Pontoise. The ''sous-préfecture'' building and administration, unlike the ''préfecture'', are located inside the commune of Pontoise. Sister cities The city of Pontoise has three sister city relationships with: * Böblingen, Germany since 1956 * Sevenoaks, United Kingdom since 1964 * Geleen, Netherlands since 1962 Security Known for being a violent city in the late 20th century, with a criminal rate of 137.62 incidents per 1000 inhabitants, Cergy-Pontoise has enjoyed ...
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Beaumont-sur-Oise
Beaumont-sur-Oise (, literally ''Beaumont on Oise'') is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. The classical cellist Jean-Henri Levasseur (1764–1823) was born in Beaumont-sur-Oise. Population Notable people * Sébastien Charlier, diatonic harmonica player * Boubacari Doucouré, footballer * Lassana Doucouré, footballer * Presnel Kimpembe, footballer * Louis Mafouta, footballer * Michaël Murcy, footballer *Timothée Pembélé, footballer *Pierre Pucheu, industrialist, fascist, and member of the Vichy government * Assa Traoré, activist See also *Communes of the Val-d'Oise department The following is a list of the 183 Communes of France, communes of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Affair Of La Macta
The Battle of Macta (Arabic: معركة المقطع) was fought on 28 June 1835 between French colonial forces led by General Camille Alphonse Trézel and the forces of Emir ʿAbd al-Qādir, leader of the Emirate of Mascara. It was a major defeat for the French in the early years of the conquest of Algeria, and it marked the first large-scale military success of ʿAbd al-Qādir’s resistance. Background Following the 1830 invasion of Algiers and France's expanding occupation of coastal Algeria, French authorities sought to extend control inland. In 1834, the Treaty of Desmichels granted Abd al-Qādir nominal control over the interior of Oran. However, tensions quickly escalated as the French violated agreements and attempted to assert control over tribal territories beyond their coastal holdings. In June 1835, General Trézel led an expedition of roughly 2,500 troops from Oran toward Mascara. The aim was to show force against tribes resisting French influence and to undermine ...
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Presles, Val-d'Oise
Presles () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise ''département'' in Île-de-France in northern France. Presles–Courcelles station has rail connections to Persan, Sarcelles and Paris. History The lordship of Presles was held by Pierre the Fat, chamberlain of King PhilipIV of France, in the late 13th century. Population Inhabitants are known as ''Preslois'' (male) or ''Presloises'' (female) in French. See also *Communes of the Val-d'Oise department The following is a list of the 183 Communes of France, communes of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):