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Honoré de Balzac


Born
in Tours, France
May 20, 1799

Died
August 18, 1850

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Walter Scott,Molière,Jean Racine,Shakespeare,Lord Byron,Jean de L ...more


French writerHonoré de Balzac(born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall ofNapoléon I Bonapartein 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the n ...more

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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac
tags: loneliness, society, solitude
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“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac
tags: reading
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“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal
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