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Honoré de Balzac

20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. (Source.)

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Accessible book, Fiction, Social life and customs, Protected DAISY, Classic Literature, OverDrive, In library, French fiction, Translations from French, Chinese fiction, Translations into Chinese, France in fiction, History, Translations into English, In literature, Fiction in Spanish, Correspondence, French language, French literature, Marriage, Chouans, French Authors, Readers, Animals, Caricatures and cartoons
Places
France, Paris (France), Paris, Brittany (France), Europe, Saumur, Sceaux, Soviet Union
People
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Catherine de Médicis Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France (1519-1589), Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), Honoré de Balzac Madame (ca. 1800-1881 or 2), Stendahl (1783-1842), Stendhal (1783-1842), Anne Charlotte Laure (Sallambier) de Balzac (1779-1854), Balzac, Colonel Chabert, Eugenie Grandet, Eugénie Grandet, Ewelina (Hrabina Rzewuska) afterwards Mme De Balzac, - Hanska, George Saintsbury (1845-1933), Hanska, Éveline (1804 or 6-1882), Harry Rickel, Hippolyte Souverain, J. J. Grandville (1803-1847), Joachim Merlant (1875-1919), Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Maurice Ménard, Napoleon, Napoléon Ier empereur des Français (1769-1821), Nicolas Poussin (1594?-1665), Zulma Carraud
Time
19th century, Directory, 1795-1799, Louis XVIII, 1814-1824, Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832, 1789-1815, 1789-1900, 1820-1840, 1830-1848, 19e siècle, 19th Century France, Revolution, 1789-1799, Siglo XIX, The Bourbon Restoration, The Middle Ages or immediate post-Middle Ages., The Paris of the July Monarchy 1830 - 1848

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History Created April 1, 2008 · 13 revisions Download catalog record: RDF / JSON

May 21, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot fix unicode
March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
May 15, 2011 Edited by Budelberger merge authors
May 15, 2011 Edited by marycee merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import