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thumb| Vautrin and Eugene de Rastignac, in Le Père Goriot|Father Goriot. thumb| Vautrin over the body of Esther Van Gobseck, in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes|The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans. Vautrin () is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin (). He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–1843) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–1844), the sequel of Ill

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Given name
Jacques
Family name
Collin
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Image
Vautrin - Honoré Daumier.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Honoré de Balzac
sexual orientation
homosexuality
present in work
The Human Comedy
name in native language
Vautrin
Commons category
Vautrin
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