Au Bonheur des Dames
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"Au Bonheur des Dames" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola that portrays the rise of a Parisian department store and its transformative impact on commerce, urban life, and women's roles in society.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Au Bonheur des Dames canonical | 6 |
| Au Bonheur des Dames (1930 film) | 1 |
| Au Bonheur des Dames (1943 film) | 1 |
| The Ladies’ Paradise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545122 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Au Bonheur des Dames Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, Au Bonheur des Dames]
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Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1958 novella by Truman Capote that follows the enigmatic socialite Holly Golightly in mid-20th-century New York City.
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Au Bonheur des Dames Target entity description: "Au Bonheur des Dames" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola that portrays the rise of a Parisian department store and its transformative impact on commerce, urban life, and women's roles in society.
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A.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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B.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
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C.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1958 novella by Truman Capote that follows the enigmatic socialite Holly Golightly in mid-20th-century New York City.
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D.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Parisian department store
ⓘ
consumer culture ⓘ saleswomen ⓘ small shopkeepers ⓘ |
| examines |
consumer desire
ⓘ
gender and work ⓘ urban modernization ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
commercial innovation
ⓘ
competition with small businesses ⓘ labor conditions in retail ⓘ |
| followedBy | La Joie de vivre ⓘ |
| genre |
naturalist novel
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realist novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Au Bonheur des Dames
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Au Bonheur des Dames (1930 film)
Au Bonheur des Dames self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Au Bonheur des Dames (1943 film)
The Paradise (TV series, loosely based) ⓘ |
| influenced | representations of department stores in literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Denise Baudu
ⓘ
Octave Mouret ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class conflict
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impact of industrialization ⓘ modern consumer capitalism ⓘ rise of the department store ⓘ transformation of urban life ⓘ women’s roles in society ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | French literature canon ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
| protagonist | Denise Baudu ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| publisher | Charpentier ⓘ |
| series | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| setInFictionalStore | Au Bonheur des Dames self-link ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second French Empire
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| titleTranslation |
Au Bonheur des Dames
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Ladies’ Paradise
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Subject: Au Bonheur des Dames Description of subject: "Au Bonheur des Dames" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola that portrays the rise of a Parisian department store and its transformative impact on commerce, urban life, and women's roles in society.
Referenced by (9)
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