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Honor? de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Com?die humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.Due to his... Read Full Overview

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A biography of Honor de Balzac, who was a Nineteenth Century French novelist and playwright. First published in 1904.