Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants

by Honoré de Balzac · first published 1834

Ferragus (Full title French: Ferragus, chef des Dévorants; English: Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants) is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne ('Scenes from Parisian life') section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is part of his trilogy Histoire des treize: Ferragus is the first part, the second is La Duchesse de Langeais, and the third is The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Ferragus first appeared in the Revue de Paris and was then published by the firm Charles-Béchet.

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Genre:

Realist

Original language:

French

Year page:

1834