Honoré de Balzac
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- Balzac, Honoré de
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1799-05-20
- Place of birth
- Tours
- Date of death
- 1850-08-18
- Place of death
- Paris
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Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
The structure of La Comédie humaine is as follows:
• Études de mœurs, which includes the sub-series:
- Scènes de la vie de campagne
- Scènes de la vie militaire
- Scènes de la vie parisienne, which also includes the sub-series:
+ Histoire des Treize
+ Les parents pauvres
+ Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Scènes de la vie politique
- Scènes de la vie privée
- Scènes de la vie de province, which also includes the sub-series:
+ Illusions perdues
+ Les Célibataires
+ Les Parisiens en province
+ Les Rivalités
• Études philosophiques
• Études analytiques
Last modified: 2020-11-15 (revision #42768)
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- Honoré de Balzac wrote Le Succube
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Balzac and Madame Hanska
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Über Balzac
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Papà Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Отец Горио
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Die unterirdischen Bücher Balzacs
- Honoré de Balzac wrote L'Apostrophe
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Naifveté
- Honoré de Balzac wrote The Old Maid
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Papá Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Kindermund
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Der Succubus
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Old Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Goriot Baba
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- 2023-12-09