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Honoré de Balzac
AuthorBooks · Second hand1799-1850
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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About Honoré de Balzac
Birth
1799
Death
1850
First book
1829
Years writing
197
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
Honoré de Balzac was a prolific French author who wrote under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin.
His magnum opus, The Human Comedy, is an ambitious collection of nearly 100 novels and plays.
Balzac masterfully portrayed French society following the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815.
Beyond being a novelist, he excelled as a journalist, art critic, editor, and playwright.
Born in Tours in 1799, he left behind an immense literary legacy spanning thousands of publications.
