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Père Goriot, an Uncommon card
Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 46,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Père Goriot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Père Goriot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Originally published in serial form during the ______ of 1834–1835, Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel.
Answer
winter. Originally published in serial form during the winter of 1834–1835, Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. From the Père Goriot article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Le Père Goriot is an ____ novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
Answer
1830s. Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. From the Père Goriot article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Deep sea mining. Deep sea mining 91 · Christian mythology 84 · Gaetano Donizetti 81 · Père Goriot 74 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.
- Originally published in serial form during the winter of 1834–1835, Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel.
- It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Père Goriot article was read about 46,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Père Goriot
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Père Goriot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jmedraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
