Honore de Balzac 
Eugenie Grandet & Sarrasine 

Eugenie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honore de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comedie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugenie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scenes de la vie de province) in the Comedie. He dedicated the edition to Maria Du Fresnay, who was then his lover and was the mother of his daughter, Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay.