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The novel is set in the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. It tells the story of two daughters raised by a wealthy businessman named Goriot. After marriage, they exploited their father's property, damaged his dignity, and tortured his emotions in a high-society lifestyle, until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".
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