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terceira parte Os Sofrimentos do Inventor Lucien termina seu aprendizado à força com a ajuda de um padre digno de Maquiavel, veremos os resultados em Esplendores e Misérias das Cortesãs.
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Gostei particularmente dessa edição da Abril cheia de notas de rodapé que nos salvam das citações mais obscuras e mantêm os poemas também no seu original em francês.

David sees his "Lost Illusions" too but this is not a melancholy ending in whole,

The last of Balzac's Lost Illusions trilogy with "Eve and David" and concluding "Scenes From Provincial Life" but not the end of Lucien Chardon's story which will continue at some point in the series.
"Eve and David" is my favorite of the three but once again, as Balzac does in the previous two novels, tends to go into tangents which can be interesting but I found tedious.
One example is when the Spanish gentleman tells his story to Lucien which made my head spin, I was looking forward to see what happens to David who is in jail.
I think this is the first time since I started reading Balzac when the mention of going to jail for debts, usually the messieurs in his stories run up debt but escape jail with different manoeuvres.
The jail is cold and hopeless, payment will give you better treatment, very reminiscent of a Charles Dickens feel but Balzac barely skims the surface,

After leaving Paris and traveling on foot to his hometown, Lucien seems to have learned his lesson or did he After his return, he started to dream again but is he still able to help David from the grip of the law David's father seems to be the tight fist, unchanging in his ways to help his son.
The young Eve with more love for her brother starts to see David in another light, the greed of the Cointet brothers as well as others too,


I did not read this edition but from a Delphi collection of his work which included the below,

"The third and final part of Illusions Perdue was first published in, In the novels narrative, Lucien uses cheap transportation to work his way back to Angoulême to escape the ruins of his career and his hopes in Paris.
He sleeps on the straw in local stables to avoid having to pay for a room, At one point, he jumps up on the back of a carriage to get a ride to his next destination, Much to his surprise, the occupants of the carriage are his old enemies Count Sixte du Châtelet and his wife, Louis de Negrèpelisse, "

I love how Balzac brings his characters into different novels of this series and you get a taste of them again, the order is not always chronically done which makes it more interesting.


spoiler alert

David and Eve are almost totally surrounded by grasping people, only Kolb and Marion are true to the couple, David had helped a young boy taking him into his home from the Parisian streets, who then turns spy with the help of the Cointet's so they can find out David's invention so the brothers can swindle the poor young man.
Old Sechard, David's father has money but refuses to help his son, looking to gain wealth and thinking his son is idle, Eve is more alert to the vultures around them but after Lucien's suicide letters, she no longer sees things clear, a forgets to be wary, An agreement is finally made with David and the Cointets after freeing David from jail, A letter and money finally comes from Lucien but too late, the deal is already signed but the money is used to buy a farm near old Sechard where the poor couples will live, and David still works on his invention which works but to the Cointet's favor but the couple just wants to live a quite life.
Old Sechard starts to mend his ways some and the family is together, until he dies which his estate is extensive but not as much as those thought it, David inherits all.
Lucien has not died yet but what happens to him will be told in later stories, he tells his family that he is with the Spanish gentleman, his helper and the money has come from his job advancement.


"RUBEMPRE LucienChardon de, born inat Angouleme son of Chardon, a surgeon in the armies of the Republic who became an apothecary in that town, and of Mademoiselle de Rubempre, his wife, the descendant of a very noble family.
He was a journalist, poet, romance writer, author of “Les Marguerites,” a book of sonnets, and of the “Archer de Charles IX,” a historical romance. He shone for a time in the salon of Madame de Bargeton, born MarieLouiseAnais de Negrepelisse, who became enamored of him, enticed him to Paris, and there deserted him, at the instigation of her cousin, Madame dEspard.
He met the members of the Cenacle on rue des QuatreVents, and became well acquainted with DArthez, Etienne Lousteau, who revealed to him the shameful truth concerning literary life, introduced him to the wellknown publisher, Dauriat, and escorted him to an opening night at the PanoramaDramatique theatre, where the poet saw the charming Coralie.
She loved him at first sight, and he remained true to her until her death in, Started by Lousteau into undertaking Liberal journalism, Lucien de Rubempre passed over suddenly to the Royalist side, founding the “Reveil,” an extremely partisan organ, with the hope of obtaining from the King the right to adopt the name of his mother.
At this time he frequented the social world and thus brought to poverty his mistress, He was wounded in a duel by Michel Chrestien, whom he had made angry by an article in the “Reveil,” which had severely criticised a very excellent book by Daniel dArthez.
Coralie having died, he departed for Angouleme on foot, with no resources except twenty francs that Berenice, the cousin and servant of her mistress, had received from chance lovers.
He came near dying of exhaustion and sorrow, very near the city of his birth, He found there Madame de Bargeton, then the wife of Comte Sixte du Chatelet, prefect of Charente and a state councilor, Despite the warm reception given him, first by a laudatory article in a local newspaper, and next by a serenade from his young fellowcitizens, he left Angouleme hastily, desperate at having been responsible for the ruin of his brotherinlaw, David Sechard, and contemplating suicide.
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"SECHARD David, only son of the preceding, schoolmate and friend of Lucien de Rubempre, learned the art of printing from the Didots of Paris, On one occasion, upon his return to his native soil, he gave many evidences of his kindness and delicacy having purchased his fathers printing shop, he allowed himself to be deliberately cheated and duped by him employed as proofreader Lucien de Rubempre, whose sister, Eve Chardon, he adored with a passion that was fully reciprocated he married her in spite of the poverty of both parties, for his business was on the decline.
The expense involved, the competition of the Cointets, and especially his experiments as inventor in the hope of finding the secret of a particular way of making paper, reduced him to very straitened circumstances.
Indeed, everything combined to destroy Sechard the cunning and power of the Cointet house, the spying of the ungrateful Cerizet, formerly his apprentice, the disorderly life of Lucien de Rubempre, and the jealous greed of his father.
A victim of the wiles of Cointet, Sechard abandoned his discovery, resigned himself to his fate, inherited from his father, and cheered by the devotion of the Kolbs, dwelt in Marsac, where Derville, led by Corentin, hunted him out with a view to gaining information as to the origin of Lucien de Rubempres million.
Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Scenes from a Courtesans Life, SECHARD Madame David, wife of the preceding, born Eve Chardon in, daughter of a druggist of LHoumeau a suburb of Angouleme, and a member of the house of Rubempre worked first at the house of Madame Prieur, a laundress, for the consideration of fifteen sous a day manifested great devotion to her brother Lucien, and on marrying David Sechard, in, transferred her devotion to him having undertaken to manage the printing shop, she competed with Cerizet, Cointet, and PetitClaud, and

almost succeeded in softening JeromeNicolas Sechard.
Madame Sechard shared with her husband the inheritance of old J, N. Sechard, and was then the modest chatelaine of La Verberie, at Marsac, By her husband she had at least one child, named Lucien, Madame Sechard was tall and of dark complexion, with blue eyes, Lost Illusions. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Scenes from a Courtesans Life, "

Cerizet is a young worker that David took from Paris to help him, Marion is a helper that the newly discharged Kolb came to help and fall in love with Marion as well, David looks to make money on inventing cheaper paper and he lets his business go but finally Eve sees the troubles of the shop and turns it around but she will soon be a mother.
PetitClaud is doing his work in delaying and making old Sechard and young separate more so that the old man does not want to help him, David tells Eve about the notes and Lucien but not that Lucien forged David's name, The Cointet brothers look to ruin the young couple and spy on his invention, They see an old school mate of David named Petit Claud and look to enlist his helping in making David dependent on the Cointets, Cointet tells PetitClaud about a marriage that he could have with money if he does something for the brothers, PetitClaud is doing his work in delaying and making old Sechard and young separate more so that the old man does not want to help him, Old Sechard is only looking for himself and not thinking about anything else, Lucien is starving and traveling home and is helped by a farmer's home and hears of the bill and David's imprisonment and becomes ill, PetitClaud still the scoundrel looks to gain by hurting David and making a good marriage, Lucien finally comes back home he walked and later was on a carriage unknown of Nais and Chantel, He recovers at a farm and then goes to see his family, Lucien is less liked again especially if he tells where David is hiding which I think he will, Lucien sees the change in his mother and sister in their esteem of him, He is upset with them but when praise comes his way he shows his sister about the paper's adulations but Eve warns him but he is not understanding this as good.
He is elated after Nais invites him to her house, What a conceited dandy. The game is on and Nais and that arrange to build Lucien up to bring him down and get David out to get his formula, Lucien knows where David is because of news of David after Basine's letters David goes to see Lucien and Petit Claud hears, PetitClaud has come to Eve and she tells of her despair of her brother's death but he tells her the note is too embellished and he would not have drown himself, which is the case because a Spanish man in a carriage talks him out of this.
Why did not Lucien offer himself for jail since he was the one who forged David's name He is too selfish, Cointet and PetitClaud have control after Eve's grief, David came out to see Lucien because of a forgered note to meet him somewhere, David makes a deal with the Cointets and soon after money comes from Lucien who is now the secretary of the Spanish man he traveled with, Eve used Lucien's money to buy a farm near old Sechard who becomes friendly with the family before he dies and their inheritance makes them comfortable, David had to settle accounts with the Cointets making them short until his father's death, The Sechards are happy having each other, they decide that they do not need to be wealthy, Nais missed Lucien when he leaves right away because her life is hum drum, A great ending to this massive story, complex and still so familiar in the world where we live today, It's sethundred years ago but its main conflict is still reflected in today's society, especially in our relationship with social media and the pursuit of "fame", See sitelink comlo .