Lost Illusions: Ève and David
Author: first_name: Honoré de
last_name: Balzac
Language: English
Year: 1901

<i>Ève and David</i> (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s <i>Lost Illusions</i> trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled <i>La Comédie Humaine</i>. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (<i>Two Poets</i>, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (<i>A Distinguished Provincial at Paris</i>, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surna