Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes. Four divisions. The first, Esther Heureuse, originally entitled La Torpille, and subsequently Comment Aiment les Filles, was first published in book form together with La Maison Nucingen. Two volumes in-8. Werdet, 1837. The second, À Combien l’Amour Revient aux Vieillards, was first published in Le Parisien, May, July, 1843. The third, Où Mènent les Mauvais Chemins, appeared in L’Époque, July, 1846, and bore the title of Une Instruction Criminelle. The fourth, La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin, appeared in La Presse, April, May, 1847. United under their collective title, these four divisions were placed in the Scènes de la Vie Parisienne. The entire work is a sequel to the Illusions Perdues, and a continuation of Le Père Goriot. La Maison Nucingen. Published together with La Torpille. Werdet, 1838. In 1844 entered the Scènes de la Vie Parisienne. Traité des Excitants Modernes. Published in 1838 (Charpentier) together with Brillat-Savarin’s Physiologie du Goût. Une Fille d’Ève. Le Siècle, December, 1838, and January, 1839. In 1842 entered the Scènes de la Vie Privée. 1839. Le Curé de Village. Published in La Presse at intervals from September, 1838, to August, 1839. A second edition was published by Souverain in 1841. Greatly altered, it entered in 1846 the first edition of the Scènes de la Vie de Campagne. Béatrix. The first two divisions of this work appeared in Le Siècle, April, May, 1839, under the title of Béatrix, ou les Amours Forcés. The third part, Un Adultère Rétrospectif, appeared in Le Messager, December, 1844. This work now forms part of the Scènes de la Vie Privée. Its principal personages, to wit, Camille Maupin, la Marquise de Rochefide, Claude Vignon, and Conti, are generally understood to represent George Sand, the Comtesse d’Agoult (mother of Wagner’s Widow), Gustave Planché, and Liszt. Massimilla Doni. La Gazette Musicale, August, 1839. In 1846 it entered the fifth edition of the Études Philosophiques. Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan, La Presse, August, 1839. It now forms part of the Scènes de la Vie Parisienne. Mémoire sur le Procès Peytil. La Presse. September, 1839. Le Notaire, Monographie du Rentier, and L’Épicier. Published together with a series of sketches by different authors, under the collective title Les Français Peints par Eux-Mêmes. Curiner. 1840. Pierrette. Le Siècle, 14, 27 January. Subsequently placed among the Scènes de la Vie de Province. Z. Marcas. Revue Parisienne, first number. Republished in 1841 under the title of La Mort d’un Ambitieux. Now contained in the Scènes de la Vie Politique. Revue Parisienne. Edited by Balzac. First number, 25 July. Vautrin. Drama in five acts. Represented at the Porte-St.-Martin, 14 March.