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Eugenie Grandet    By: Honore de Balzac
Copyright 2002 by Everyman's Library

English: Bonfons de Cruchot

Bonfons de Cruchot marries Eugenie hopeful of becoming fabulously wealthy. However he dies young. Bonfons de Cruchot carries out the plan to pay in full the debt of Guillaume Grandet.

English: Eugenie Grandet

Charles writes to Eugenie to announce his marriage plans, and to break off their engagement.  Eugenie is heartbroken, especially when she discovers that Charles had been back in France for a month when he wrote to her. Eugenie then decides to become engaged to Cruchot des Bonfons, the lawyer, on two conditions. One is that she remains a virgin, and the other is that he agrees to go to Paris to act for her to pay off all the debts due Guillaume Grandet's creditor's. When Charles finally meets Bonfons de Cruchot, he discovers that Eugenie is in fact far wealthier than he is, he had assumed from the state of their home that his relatives were poor.

English: Guillaume Grandet

Guillaume Grandet is Charles father who has gone bankrupt and plans to takes his own life. Guillaume reveals this to his brother Felix in a confidential letter. Guillaumes ruin and suicide are soon published in the newspaper, and his brother Felix reveals his problems to his son.

English: Charles Grandet

Charles Grandet arrives from Paris at his home having been sent there by his father. Charles does not realise that his father has gone bankrupt and plans to takes his own life. Guillaume reveals this to his brother Felix in a confidential letter which Charles has carried.Charles is a spoilt, and indolent young man, who is having an affair with an older woman. He is the president of the court of first instance.

English: Felix Garndet

 Felix Garndet is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance. However he is very miserly, and he, his wife, daughter and their servant Nanon live in a run down old house which he is too miserly too repair.