Madame Vauquer

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Madame Vauquer is the miserly, aging widow who runs the shabby Parisian boarding house in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot."

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Madame Vauquer canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf boarding house keeper
fictional character
literary character
widow
age middle-aged to elderly
appearsIn Le Père Goriot
associatedWith pension Vauquer
characterTrait greedy
miserly
petty
self-interested
createdBy Honoré de Balzac
employs Christophe
Sylvie
gender female
landladyOf Eugène de Rastignac
Jean-Joachim Goriot
Vautrin
languageOfWork French
maritalStatus widow
nationality French
notedFor stingy treatment of her lodgers
symbolizing lower-middle-class avarice in Balzac’s work
occupation boarding house owner
landlady
partOf La Comédie humaine
residence Paris
boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève
runs a shabby Parisian boarding house
settingPeriod early 19th-century Paris
socialClass petite bourgeoisie
treats boarders as sources of income

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Le Père Goriot containsCharacter Madame Vauquer
Poiret associatedWith Madame Vauquer
Mademoiselle Michonneau associatedWith Madame Vauquer