Eugène de Rastignac is a fictional character from a series of novels by a novelist born in which year ?
Eugène de Rastignac Eugène de Rastignac ] is a fictional character from "La Comédie humaine", a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in "Le Père Goriot" (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series.
Percival Keene Percival Keene is a coming-of-age adventure novel published in three volumes in 1842 by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the nautical adventures of the title character, a low-born illegitimate child of a captain in the Royal Navy, as he enters service as a midshipman during the Napoleonic Wars and rises through the ranks with the help of his influential father.