Facino Cane (short story)

"Facino Cane" is an 1836 short story by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It first appeared in the Chronique de Paris on March 17, 1836 and in 1837 was classified by Balzac as a Philosophical Study (Étude philosophique). In 1843, it appeared with Balzac's novel Albert Savarus. In 1844, it became part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.