page_title: Vautrin
hierarchical_section_title: Vautrin
caption_attribution_description: Title page of Honoré de Balzac's The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1847).
context_page_description: Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin. He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, the sequel of Illusions perdues, under the name of Abbé Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the nickname "Trompe-la-Mort", because he managed to avoid the death sentence repeatedly.
context_section_description: Vautrin [vo.tʁɛ̃] is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin [ʒɑk kɔ.lɛ̃]. He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–1843) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–1844), the sequel of Illusions perdues, under the name of Abbé Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the nickname "Trompe-la-Mort" ("Dodgedeath" or "Cheats-Death"), because he managed to avoid the death sentence repeatedly.
caption: Vautrin over the body of Esther Van Gobseck, in The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans.
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