Père Goriot
1835 NOVEL BY HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Old Goriot; Father Goriot; Pere goriot; Le pere Goriot; Le père Goriot; Le Père Goriot (novel); Pere goroit; Pere Goriot; Le Pere Goriot; Le Pere Goriot (novel); Pere Goirot; Father Goirot; Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot (, "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.