the Deputy of Arcis is a Romance French of Honore de Balzac, begun in 1839, taken again by the author in 1843, then in 1847, it enters the Scènes of the political life of the human Comedy . It will be published finally only after the death of the author, in 1854, thanks to the devoted contest of Charles Rabou, which will finish other unfinished novels left by Balzac.
The first part of the novel appeared in 1847 in the monarchical Union under the title: the Election . The integral novel continued by Charles Rabou according to the indications of Balzac and Ewelina Hańska, was published 1852 in Constitutional the in three parts which gathered: the Election , the Count de Sallenauve , and the Family Beauvisage where the collaboration of Charles Rabou was not mentioned. The three parts of the Deputy of Arcis did not appear together. The first was published at Potter in 1854 with the mention finished by Charles Rabou , the Count de Sallenauve and the Family Beauvisage appeared the following year (1855) and later at Michel Levy in Complete works of Honore de Balzac with the mention: finished by Charles Rabou. (1864)
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The action is within the same framework as that of a mysterious business which one finds the characters under the features of their descendants: Giguet, Goulard, Michu, Violet, the Five-Swan, Simeuse, Chargebœuf, Gondreville (of which removal had given place to a lawsuit and who is now eighty years old. The power struggles are quite as wild in this small town of province where two parties clash, each of both being ready with very to obtain its appointed. This work fits well in the continuity of the human Comedy , since one finds there Eugene de Rastignac, itself appointed elected for the second time, Maxime de Trailles, the baron de Nucingen, the marchioness of Espard, and a whole Parisian circle which may find it beneficial great to regulate the business with its advantage. The new elected official having to give up his seat with Maxime de Trailles, the novel was to be completed on the triumph of the dandy and his marriage with Cécile Beauvisage.
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