Grandet house in Saumur

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The Grandet house in Saumur is the modest, tightly run provincial household of the Grandet family in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Eugénie Grandet," symbolizing both their hidden wealth and oppressive domestic life.

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Grandet house in Saumur canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional house ⓘ
literary location ⓘ
appearsIn Eugénie Grandet ⓘ
associatedWithCharacterTrait Eugénie’s piety and simplicity ⓘ
Félix Grandet’s miserliness ⓘ
associatedWithMotif closed doors and locked spaces ⓘ
cold and darkness in the home ⓘ
associatedWithTheme bourgeois economy ⓘ
domestic oppression ⓘ
female confinement ⓘ
greed ⓘ
controlsLifeOf Eugénie Grandet ⓘ
Madame Grandet ⓘ
linked to: Félix Grandet

Nanon ⓘ
countryInFiction France ⓘ
createdBy Honoré de Balzac ⓘ
describedAs modest ⓘ
tightly run ⓘ
economicRole place where Grandet hoards wealth ⓘ
fictionalStatus not a real building ⓘ
functionInNarrative primary setting of Eugénie Grandet ⓘ
site of Eugénie’s emotional development ⓘ
space of family conflict ⓘ
genreOfWork realist novel ⓘ
hasMedium novel ⓘ
inhabitedBy Eugénie Grandet ⓘ
Félix Grandet ⓘ
Grandet family ⓘ
Madame Grandet ⓘ
linked to: Félix Grandet

Nanon ⓘ
languageOfWork French ⓘ
literaryMovement French realism ⓘ
locatedInFictional Saumur ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
notableFeature austere interior ⓘ
lack of visible luxury ⓘ
ownedByInFiction Félix Grandet ⓘ
partOf La Comédie humaine ⓘ
partOfSeries Scènes de la vie de province ⓘ
setInRegionFictional Loire Valley ⓘ
symbolizes avarice ⓘ
economic miserliness ⓘ
hidden wealth ⓘ
oppressive domestic life ⓘ
provincial narrowness ⓘ
timePeriodInFiction early 19th century ⓘ
workPublicationYear 1833 ⓘ

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Nanon → residence → Grandet house in Saumur ⓘ