An important figure in Balzac's novel Eugenie Grandet, the father of Eugenie Grandet. He is one of the richest and most prestigious businessmen in Somme, France, but he is extremely stingy. In his eyes, his daughter and wife are not as good as his dime. Is the representative of the miser.

Grandet-Although the story of Eugenie Grandet is the core of this book, Grandet Law is undoubtedly the most distinctive figure among them. Greed and meanness are his main characteristics.

In the eyes of old Grandet, money is above everything else. Without money, everything is over. His thirst for money and possessiveness almost reached a morbid level: he locked himself in a secret room in the middle of the night, "caressing, playing and admiring his gold coins, putting them in a bucket and tying them tightly." Before he died, he asked his daughter to spread gold coins on the table and stare at them for a long time so that he could feel warm.

Greed for money makes old Grandet a real miser: despite his great wealth, he still lives in a dark and shabby old house and personally distributes family food and candles every day. This work, published in 1833, reflects the life of other French provinces at the beginning of 19 century, mainly describing the bourgeois family history and interpersonal relationship at that time.