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Honoré de Balzac
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Honoré de Balzac

Author · born May 20, 1799 · died 1850

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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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  1. ~31Notable work: The Human Comedy1830
  2. ~32Notable work: La Peau de chagrin1831
  3. ~34Notable work: Eugénie Grandet1833
  4. 35Notable work: Père GoriotMarch 1, 1835
  5. ~38Notable work: Illusions perdues1837

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