Balzac Plots: Comedie Humaine Chronology


The Middle Ages

The Exiles (1308-95)
(Very Short, Les Proscrits,xiles10.txt)

Jesus Christ in Flanders (After 1426)
Jesus Christ in Flanders Walking across the sea to safety with Jesus Christ after a boat capsizes.
(Very Short, Jesus-Christ en Flandre,flndr10.txt)

Master Cornelius (1479)
(Medium, Maitre Cornelius,crnls10.txt)

The Elixir of Long Life (16th Century)
"Don Juan's dying father has asked his son to revive him after death by bathing his corpse in the magic potion. Keeping watch over his father's body, the son moistens one eye. It opens, and is, as one might expect, horribly eloquent, 'thinking, accusing, condemning, threatening, judging, speaking, shouting, and biting.' Taking a trowel, Don Juan squashes the eye and keeps the rest of the precious elixir for himself." (Robb,161)
(Very Short, L'Elixir de longue vie,lxrlf10.txt)

Catherine de Medici (1560,1573,1591-1617,1612,1786)
(Very Long, Sur Catherine de Medicis, ctdmd10.txt)

The Hated Son (Medium, L'Enfant maudit,htdsn10.txt )