# The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix/Appendix

APPENDIX
THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE
The form in which the Comedie Humaine was left by its author, with the exceptions of Le Depute d'Arcis (incomplete) and Les Petits Bourgeois, both of which were added, some years later, by the Edition Definitive.
The original French titles are followed by their English equivalents. Literal translations have been followed, excepting a few instances where preference is shown for a clearer or more comprehensive English title.
COMEDIE HUMAINE
SCENES DE LA VIE PRIVEE
SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du Chat-qui Pelote) The Ball at Sceaux (Le Bal de Sceaux) The Purse (La Bourse) Vendetta (La Vendetta) Madame Firmiani (Mme. Firmiani) A Second Home (Une Double Famille) Domestic Peace (La Paix du Menage) Paz (La Fausse Maitresse) Study of a Woman (Etude de femme) Another Study of Woman (Autre etude de femme) The Grand Breteche (La Grande Breteche) Albert Savarus (Albert Savarus) Letters of Two Brides (Memoires de deux Jeunes Mariees) A Daughter of Eve (Une Fille d'Eve) A Woman of Thirty (La Femme de Trente Ans) The Deserted Woman (La Femme abandonnee) La Grenadiere (La Grenadiere) The Message (Le Message) Gobseck (Gobseck) The Marriage Contract (Le Contrat de Mariage) A Start in Life (Un Debut dans la vie) Modeste Mignon (Modeste Mignon) Beatrix (Beatrix) Honorine (Honorine) Colonel Chabert (Le Colonel Chabert) The Atheist's Mass (La Messe de l'Athee) The Commission in Lunacy (L'Interdiction) Pierre Grassou (Pierre Grassou)
SCENES DE LA VIE PROVINCE
SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE
Ursule Mirouet (Ursule Mirouet) Eugenie Grandet (Eugenie Grandet) Pierrette (Les Celibataires, Pierrette) The Vicar of Tours (Le Cure de Tours) The Two Brothers, (The Black Sheep) (Un Menage de Garcon, La Rabouilleuse) The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'illustre Gaudissart, Parisians in the Country) The Muse of the Department (La Muse du departement) The Old Maid, Jealousies of a Country Town (La Vieille Fille, Les Rivalites) The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des antiques) The Lily of the Valley (Le Lys dans la Vallee) Two Poets, Lost Illusions:—I. (Les Deux Poetes, Illusions Perdues:—I.) A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un Grand homme de province a Paris, 1re partie) Eve and David (Eve et David)
SCENES DE LA VIE PARISIENNE
SCENES FROM PARISIAN LIFE
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, Esther Happy (Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes What Love Costs an Old Man (A combien l'amour revient aux vieillards) The End of Evil Ways (Ou menent les mauvais Chemins) Vautrin's Last Avatar (La derniere Incarnation de Vautrin) A Prince of Bohemia (Un Prince de la Boheme) A Man of Business (Un Homme d'affaires) Gaudissart II (Gaudissart II.) Unconscious Comedians, The Unconscious Humorists (Les Comediens sans le savoir) Ferragus, The Thirteen (Ferragus, Histoire des Treize) The Duchesse de Langeais (La Duchesse de Langeais) Girl with the Golden Eyes (La Fille aux yeux d'or) Father Goriot, Old Goriot (Le Pere Goriot) Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (Grandeur et Decadence de Cesar Birotteau) The Firm of Nucingen (La Maison Nucingen) Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan (Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan) Bureaucracy, The Government Clerks (Les Employes) Sarrasine (Sarrasine) Facino Cane (Facino Cane) Cousin Betty, Poor Relations:—I. (La Cousine Bette, Les Parents Pauvres:—I.) Cousin Pons, Poor Relations:—II. (Le Cousin Pons, Les Parents Pauvres:—II.) The Lesser Bourgeoisie, The Middle Classes (Les Petits Bourgeois)
SCENES DE LA VIE POLITIQUE
SCENES FROM POLITICAL LIFE
An Historical Mystery, The Gondreville Mystery (Une Tenebreuse Affaire) An Episode Under the Terror (Un Episode sous la Terreur) Brotherhood of Consolation, Seamy Side of History (Mme. de la Chanterie, L'Envers de l'Histoire Contemporaine) Initiated, The Initiate (L'Initie) Z. Marcas (Z. Marcas) The Deputy of Arcis, The Member for Arcis (Le Depute d'Arcis)
SCENES DE LA VIE MILITAIRE
SCENES FROM MILITARY LIFE
The Chouans (Les Chouans) A Passion in the Desert (Une Passion dans le desert)
SCENES DE LA VIE DE CAMPAGNE
SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE
The Country Doctor (Le Medecin de Campagne) The Village Rector, The Country Parson (Le Cure de Village) Sons of the Soil, The Peasantry (Les Paysans)
ETUDES PHILOSOPHIQUES
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) The Alkahest, The Quest of the Absolute (La Recherche de l'Absolu) Christ in Flanders (Jesus-Christ en Flandre) Melmoth Reconciled (Melmoth reconcilie) The Unknown Masterpiece, The Hidden Masterpiece (Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu) The Hated Son (L'Enfant Maudit) Gambara (Gambara) Massimilla Doni (Massimilla Doni) Juana, The Maranas (Les Marana) Farewell (Adieu) The Recruit, The Conscript (Le Requisitionnaire) El Verdugo (El Verdugo) A Drama on the Seashore, A Seaside Tragedy (Un Drame au bord de la mer) The Red Inn (L'Auberge rouge) The Elixir of Life (L'Elixir de longue vie) Maitre Cornelius (Maitre Cornelius) Catherine de' Medici, The Calvinist Martyr (Sur Catherine de Medicis, Le Martyr calviniste) The Ruggieri's Secret, (La Confidence des Ruggieri) The Two Dreams (Les Deux Reves) Louis Lambert (Louis Lambert) The Exiles (Les Proscrits) Seraphita (Seraphita)