The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Bianchon, Horace
 Father Goriot
 Cesar Birotteau
 The Commission in Lunacy
 Lost Illusions
 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
 A Bachelor's Establishment
 The Secrets of a Princess
 The Government Clerks
 Pierrette
 A Study of Woman
 Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
 Honorine
 The Seamy Side of History
 The Magic Skin
 A Second Home
 A Prince of Bohemia
 Letters of Two Brides
 The Muse of the Department
 The Imaginary Mistress
 The Middle Classes
 Cousin Betty
 The Country Parson

In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:

 Another Study of Woman
 La Grande Breteche

Desplein
 Cousin Pons
 Lost Illusions
 The Thirteen
 The Government Clerks
 Pierrette
 A Bachelor's Establishment
 The Seamy Side of History
 Modeste Mignon
 Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
 Honorine