Goriot

The Marquis, Charles’s Father

The Brigadier of Gendarmerie

The Curate

The Notary

A Waiter

Ernestine, Goriot’s Daughter

Aline

Maids, Peasants (Male and Female), Gendarmes

The Scene is laid in the Courtyard of the “Auberge des Adrets,”
on the frontier of France and Savoy. The time 1820. The
Action occupies an interval of from twelve to fourteen
hours; from four in the afternoon till about
five in the morning