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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, translated variously as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans, A Harlot High and Low, or as Lost Souls, is an 1838–1847 novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac, published in four initially separate parts:

• Esther Happy (Esther heureuse, 1838)
• What Love Costs an Old Man (À combien l’amour revient aux vieillards, 1843)
• The End of Evil Ways (Où mènent les mauvais chemins, 1846)
• The Last Incarnation of Vautrin (La Dernière incarnation de Vautrin, 1847)

It continues the story of Lucien de Rubempré, who was a main character in Illusions perdues, a preceding Balzac novel. Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes forms part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.