Ursule Mirouët (fictional character)

E1038065

Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) is the virtuous and orphaned heroine of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Ursule Mirouët," whose life and inheritance struggles expose the moral and social tensions of a provincial French town.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
protagonist
appearsIn Ursule Mirouët
appearsInCycle Scènes de la vie de province
associatedWithTheme family greed
justice
piety
social hypocrisy
centralThemeRelation inheritance dispute
provincial society
religious faith
virtue versus greed
conflictWith Minoret heirs
countryOfFictionalResidence France
createdBy Honoré de Balzac
creatorNationality French
familyRelation ward of Dr. Denis Minoret
gender female
guardian Dr. Denis Minoret
hasGivenName Ursule
hasSurname Mirouët
inheritsFrom Dr. Denis Minoret
languageOfWork French
literaryGenreContext psychological novel
literaryMovementContext French realism
moralCharacter virtuous
moralOppositionTo materialism of Minoret relatives
name Ursule Mirouët
narrativeFunction exposes moral tensions in provincial town
focus of inheritance conflict
partOf La Comédie humaine
raisedBy Dr. Denis Minoret
roleInWork heroine
setting Nemours
settingCountry France
socialStatus orphan
symbolizes Christian virtue
innocence
moral purity
timePeriod 19th century
victimOf calumny
legal machinations
workType novel

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ursule Mirouët mainCharacter Ursule Mirouët (fictional character)
Ursule Mirouët hasTitleCharacter Ursule Mirouët (fictional character)