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Honoré de Balzac

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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French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Born 20 May 1799
Died 18 August 1850

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French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Born 20 May 1799
Died 18 August 1850
Subjects
Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs, France, fiction, Classic Literature, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, French fiction, Translations into English, French literature, History, Manners and customs, Marriage, Balzac, honore de, 1799-1850, France in fiction, Romance literature, Chouans, French language materials, Correspondence, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, short stories (single author), French Short stories, French literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Paris (france), fiction, Translations from French
Places
France, Paris (France), Paris, Brittany (France), Europe, Fa guo, United States, Alabama, Brittany, Cambridge, Eton College, Frankreich, França, Jamaica, Jefferson, Le Havre, Louisiana, L’Abri, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New England, New York City, Normandy, Normandy (France), Owl Creek Bridge
People
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Catherine de Médicis Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France (1519-1589), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Honoré de Balzac Madame (ca. 1800-1881 or 2), Stendhal (1783-1842), Ernest Valdemar, Fernand Angué, Hono Balzac (1799-1850), Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Anne Charlotte Laure (Sallambier) de Balzac (1779-1854), Armand Aubigny, Aunt Glosspan, Billy Weaver, Carlos, Catherine de Me dicis Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France (1519-1589), Christopher Mulholland, Colonel Chabert, Colonel Sartoris, Devil, Désirée, Emily Grierson, Eugénie Grandet, Ewelina (Hrabina Rzewuska) afterwards Mme De Balzac, - Hanska, Faith Brown
Time
19th century, Louis XVIII, 1814-1824, Directory, 1795-1799, Jin dai, 19th Century France, Antebellum era, Revolution, 1789-1799, The Bourbon Restoration, Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832, 1600s, 1789-1815, 1789-1900, 1819, 1820-1840, 1829, 1830-1848, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 19e siècle, 20e siècle, American Civil War, Civil War, Siglo XIX, The Middle Ages or immediate post-Middle Ages., The Paris of the July Monarchy 1830 - 1848

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January 8, 2024 Edited by jacques2636 Edited without comment.
August 21, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
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