Eug nie Grandet is an 1833 1] novel by French author Honor de Balzac, about miserliness and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eug nie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. citation needed] Balzac conceived his ambitious project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eug nie Grandet and incorporated it into the Com die by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition, which he also dedicated to Maria Du Fresnay, his then-lover and mother of his daughter Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay, and, as was proved later on, the "real" Eug nie Grandet.