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Ursule is the legitimate daughter of the widower Dr Denis Minoret’s deceased illegitimate brother-in-law by marriage, Joseph Mirouët; not only is she the doctor’s niece, she is also his goddaughter and ward. Fifteen years old when the novel begins, she has been brought up by the doctor.
Ursule Mirouët est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, publié dans Le Messager, en août-septembre 1841, puis édité en deux volumes chez Souverain en 1842, avant d'être inclus, en 1843, dans les Études de mœurs de La Comédie humaine, au tome I des Scènes de vie de province.
URSULE MIROUËT – published in 1841. Analysis of the 0euvre As with Scenes from Private Life, this series comprises four volumes in the general division of 19th-century studies of manners. These four volumes were published between 1834 and 1837.
Ursule Mirouet is part of of Balzac's Scenes from a Provincial Life, and the story seemed, for about half of the book or more, to unfold predictably enough. A good as gold (and beautiful) girl raised by her benevolent (but aged) godfather in a small French town teaming with petty jealousies.
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Ursule Mirouet by Honoré de Balzac - The 6044th greatest book of all time. The novel revolves around the life of Ursule Mirouet, a gentle and devout orphan raised by her godfather, Doctor Minoret, in the town of Nemours.
In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as 'a remarkable tour de...
An essentially simple tale about the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, Ursule Mirouet is characterized by that wealth of penetrating observation so readily associated with Balzac's work. The twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illuminated by a consistently passionate rejection of both philosophic and practical materialism in ...
