Living at Angoulême, he is impoverished, impatient, handsome and ambitious.
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(5) Introduced into narrative fiction by the Gothic novel (The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk), melodrama was widespread in literature around the time when Illusions perdues was written.
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Lucien is about to commit suicide when he is approached by a sham Jesuit priest, the Abbé Carlos Herrera: this, in another guise, is the escaped convict Vautrin whom Balzac had already presented in Le Père Goriot.
Illusions perdues, serial novel published by Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843
In 2011 he also player a role in Lucien an adaptation of Illusions perdues and a Basilio a Don Quixote adaptation.
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Félicité de Genlis appears as a character in the works of the following writers, among others: Honoré de Balzac (Illusions perdues), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and Jane Austen (Emma).