Les Parents pauvres. 2 - Le Cousin Pons (French Edition)
Check copyright status Cite this Title Balzac et Les parents pauvres: Other Authors Amossy, Ruth. Physical Description p.
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Despite the pun, this could be no ocuntry for poor old men. He has only one relative, a well connected cousin, Camusot de Marville who in turn has a grasping wife and young marriageable daughter , and one friend, a German and fellow musician, Schmucke. When there exists a friendship like that, however, and it's torn asunder by unscrupulous people, I'm still affected. For the past couple years I've had a lot of trouble reading fiction. Jul 31, Eliza rated it really liked it. I laughed out loud.
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Buy Les Parents Pauvres Les Deux Histoires, La Cousine Bette, Le Cousin Pons. (French Edition): Read Kindle Store Reviews - www.farmersmarketmusic.com Editorial Reviews. Review. Novel by Honore de Balzac, published in as Le Cousin Pons. is often paired with La Cousine Bette under the title Les Parents pauvres ("The Poor Relations"). . Here his genius for characterization produces two redoubtable masterpieces: the middle-class Madame Camusot and the.
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Cousin Pons
These online bookshops told us they have this item: Especially admired by Paul Bourget , it is one of the very greatest of his novels. Sylvain Pons, a musician in a Parisian boulevard orchestra, has a close friend in another musician from the orchestra, the German pianist Wilhelm Schmucke. They lodge with Mme Cibot but Pons — unlike Schmucke — has two failings: Schmucke, on the other hand, has only one passion, his affection for Pons.
Pons, being a gourmet, much enjoys dining regularly with his wealthy lawyer cousins M. When this ill-considered marriage project falls through, Pons is banished from the house.
The novella becomes a novel as Mme Camusot learns of the value of Pons's art collection and strives to obtain possession of it as the basis of a dowry for her daughter. In this new development of the plot a bitter struggle ensues between various vulture-like figures, all of whom are keen to lay their hands on the collection: Betraying his client Mme Cibot's interests, the unsavoury barrister Fraisier acts for the Camusots. She also steals one for herself.
Horrified to discover his betrayal by Mme Cibot and the plots that are raging around him, Pons dies, bequeathing all his worldly possessions to Schmucke. The latter is browbeaten out of them by Fraisier. He in turn dies a broken-hearted man, for in Pons he has lost all that he valued in the world.