Le Curé de village
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Illustration from an 1897 edition by Daniel Hernández | |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Language | French |
Series | La Comédie humaine |
Publisher | Hippolyte Souverain |
Publication date | 1841 |
Publication place | France |
Preceded by | Le Médecin de campagne |
Followed by | Le Lys dans la vallée |
Le Curé de village (The Village Priest) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It first appeared in La Presse in 1839. Frequently revised, the edited text was published as a separate volume in 1841. It covers themes that Balzac had already developed in le Médecin de campagne - improvements to living conditions in rural areas and redemption through self-sacrifice. It was first conceived as a detective novel and includes a mysterious death, with the attitude of its main character Véronique Graslin remaining mysterious until the end of the book.
Summary
The only daughter of scrap metal dealers from Auvergne who managed to accumulate a large dowry by dint of economy, Véronique Graslin married a wealthy banker from Limoges, who neglected her for the benefit of his business. Its particular beauty attracts around it elements of the good society of the city, in particular the public prosecutor.
In Limoges, a crime moves the population: an old miser named Pingret has been robbed and murdered. The culprit is arrested, a porcelain worker named Tascheron, from the neighboring village of Montégnac. At first he denies it fiercely, but under the exhortation of the parish priest of Montégnac, Monsieur Bonnet, he ends up confessing to the murder and resigns himself to being condemned to death and executed by accepting the help of religion. To escape dishonor, the criminal's family emigrated to the United States, where they founded the prosperous town of Tascheronville in Ohio.
On the death of her husband, Véronique retired to Montégnac and henceforth devoted her life to others, an active form of a monastic retreat. In particular, she had irrigation works undertaken to fertilize the arid lands of the commune. She is the benefactress of the village, she is considered a saint. In fact, she atones for a terrible fault that she will reveal only when she dies.
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- La Maison du chat-qui-pelote
- Le Bal de Sceaux
- La Bourse
- La Vendetta
- Madame Firmiani
- Une double famille
- La Paix du ménage
- La Fausse Maîtresse
- Étude de femme
- Autre étude de femme
- La Grande Bretèche
- Albert Savarus
- Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées
- Une fille d'Eve
- La Femme de trente ans
- La Femme abandonnée
- La Grenadière
- Le Message
- Gobseck
- Le Contrat de mariage
- Un début dans la vie
- Modeste Mignon
- Béatrix
- Honorine
- Le Colonel Chabert
- La Messe de l'athée
- L'Interdiction
- Pierre Grassou
- Ursule Mirouët
- Eugénie Grandet
- Pierrette
- Le Curé de Tours
- La Rabouilleuse
- L'illustre Gaudissart
- La Muse du département
- La Vieille Fille
- Le Cabinet des Antiques
- Le Lys dans la vallée
- Illusions perdues
- Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Un prince de la bohème
- Un homme d’affaires
- Gaudissart II
- Les Comédiens sans le savoir
- Ferragus
- La Duchesse de Langeais
- La Fille aux yeux d'or
- Le Père Goriot
- César Birotteau
- La Maison Nucingen
- Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
- Les Employés
- Sarrasine
- Facino Cane
- La Cousine Bette
- Le Cousin Pons
- Les Petits Bourgeois
- Une ténébreuse affaire
- Un épisode sous la Terreur
- Madame de la Chanterie
- L'Initié
- Z. Marcas
- Le Député d'Arcis
- Le Médecin de campagne
- Le Curé de village
- Les Paysans
- La Peau de chagrin
- La Recherche de l'absolu
- Jésus-Christ en Flandre
- Melmoth réconcilié
- Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
- L'Enfant maudit
- Gambara
- Massimilla Doni
- Les Marana
- Adieu
- Le Réquisitionnaire
- El Verdugo
- Un drame au bord de la mer
- L'Auberge rouge
- L'Elixir de longue vie
- Maître Cornélius
- Sur Catherine de Médicis
- Louis Lambert
- Les Proscrits
- Séraphîta
- La Physiologie du mariage
- Petites misères de la vie conjugale
- Fernand Lotte: Armorial de la Comédie Humaine
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