Eug nie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honor de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Com die humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eug nie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Sc nes de la vie de province) in the Com die. He dedicated the edition to Maria Du Fresnay, who was then...