Droit parisien Law and Justice in the Comédie Humaine Público
Butterworth, Amanda Diane (2010)
Abstract
Found in the multi-volume masterpiece La Comédie Humaine, Honoré de Balzac's novels Le Père Goriot and Le Colonel Chabert depict characters grappling with the tumult of Bourbon Restoration France beginning in 1819. Both title characters personally encounter a divide between law and justice in this epoch, and seek assistance from the legal Code civil to validate their claims. Concurrently, Balzac creates a young law student named Eugene de Rastignac, recently arrived from the southern provinces to study at the École de droit in Le Père Goriot, and a seasoned lawyer named Maître Derville to witness the law's effects in Le Colonel Chabert. When established rules of conformity to law and rules of moral conduct intersect with human beings with their own interpretations of laws and justice, the true law of the city is revealed.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction...1
Vacillations in the Legal Mire of Paris...5
Reading Between the Lines of Conflict on the Face of Colonel
Chabert...23
The Rotten Fruits of Fatherhood...35
Conclusion...44
References...48
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