Grandet

I'm also talking about Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, which features a selfish rich guy like many of the wealthy in 2011.

Dave Astor: The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events Dave Astor 2011

I'm also talking about Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, which features a selfish rich guy like many of the wealthy in 2011.

Dave Astor: The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events Dave Astor 2011

Revolutionary wall painting -- the trademark of Orozco and such contemporaries as Rivera and Siqueiros -- is as evocative of Mexico as A Christmas Carol of 19th century London and Eugénie Grandet of provincial France.

Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008

Revolutionary wall painting -- the trademark of Orozco and such contemporaries as Rivera and Siqueiros -- is as evocative of Mexico as A Christmas Carol of 19th century London and Eugénie Grandet of provincial France.

Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008

Revolutionary wall painting -- the trademark of Orozco and such contemporaries as Rivera and Siqueiros -- is as evocative of Mexico as A Christmas Carol of 19th century London and Eugénie Grandet of provincial France.

Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008

Monsieur Grandet enjoyed a reputation in Saumur whose causes and effects can never be fully understood by those who have not, at one time or another, lived in the provinces.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Madame Grandet for all answer raised her eyes to heaven.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Grandet — without giving the biography of Monsieur Grandet himself.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

In 1789 Monsieur Grandet — still called by certain persons le Pere Grandet, though the number of such old persons has perceptibly diminished — was a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

These words, uttered in a quiet tone of voice, were nevertheless so bitterly sarcastic that the inhabitants of Saumur, grouped at this moment in the market-place and overwhelmed by the news of the sale Grandet had just effected, would have shuddered had they heard them.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007