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In a novel by this author, a Catholic doctor names the title pious girl as an heir, but his will is destroyed by a postmaster. In a later novel, a teenager borrows that novel by this author in exchange for helping a man who lost his glasses, then copies it onto the inside of his jacket. This author partly titles a novel in which two boys borrow books from Four-Eyes at a reeducation camp, by Dài Sījié (“die sudge-YEH”). A foot emerges from the “dim, formless fog” of a painting by Frenhofer in this author’s story “The Unknown Masterpiece.” This author wrote a novel centered on the Maison Vauquer’s (“voh-KAY’s”) boarders, including an old pasta maker whose daughters (10[1])Anastasie and Delphine do not attend his funeral. The criminal Vautrin meets the law student Eugène de Rastignac in this author’s novel Père Goriot (“pair gohr-YO”). For 10 points, name this author of The Human Comedy. ■END■

ANSWER: Honoré de Balzac (The first line refers to Ursule Mirouët.)
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