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Balzac and Diderot: Le Chef-D'œuvre Inconnu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Margaret Gilman*
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Abstract

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Type
Comment and Criticism
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1950

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References

1 Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu was first published in 1831, in L'Artiste (i, 319-322; ii, 7-10), and was reprinted in the same year, with slight alterations, in Volume iii of Romans et contes philosophiques.

2 “Honoré de Balzac et Théophile Gautier”, Autour de Honoré de Balzac (Calmann-Lévy, 1897), pp. 1-88.

3 “Les Artistes dans les romans de Balzac”, Revue Critique des Idées et des Livres, xxxiv (1922), 150.

4 Art and Artists in Balzac's “Comédie humaine” (Univ. of Chicago Libraries. 1937).

5 Ibid., p. 42.

6 Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres complètes, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon (Conard, 191240), xxviii, 7. All references to Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu are to this edition.

7 Diderot, Œuvres complètes, ed. Assézat and Tourneux (Garnier, 1875-77), x, 464. AU references to Diderot are to this edition.