Happy birthday to Honoré de Balzac! This prolific French author was born on this day in 1799. He is
Happy birthday to Honoré de Balzac! This prolific French author was born on this day in 1799. He is best known for La Comédie Humaine, a collection of short stories and novels about French life after the reign of Napoleon. Due to his precise attention to details and his commitment to presenting life as he saw it, Balzac is considered one of the first masters of realism in Europe.(portrait from Honoré de Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes (1900)) -- source link
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