A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
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Character: Jean-Joachim Goriot
Character: Vautrin
Character: Eugène de Rastignac
Character: La vicomtesse de Beauséant
Character: Mme Vauquer
Character: Delphine de Nucingen
Character: Anastasie de Restaud
Character: Poiret
Character: Victorine Taillefer
Character: Mme Couture
Character: Horace Bianchon
Character: Princesse de Galathionne
Character: Gondureau
Character: Sylvie
Character: Mlle Michonneau
Character: Thérèse
Character: L'étudiant
Character: Le marquis d'Ajuta-Pinto
Character: Le baron de Nucingen
Character: Christophe
Character: Le peintre