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Honoré de Balzac

Also known as Balzac, Horace de Saint- Aubin, Onoreh deh Balzaḳ, Lord R'Hoone, Ônôrē de Balzaq, Jeune ceélibataire, Onore de Balzak, Honorato De Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist, playwright, and writer active in the fields of literature, drama, and journalism. Born in 1799, he began his work period in 1829. He wrote in French and was male.

Balzac used several pseudonyms, including Horace de Saint-Aubin, Lord R’Hoone, Viellerglé, and Saint Aubin. He died in 1850. His body of work includes 36 items.

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Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. He is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Balzac's first project was a libretto for a comic opera called "Le Corsaire", based on Lord Byron's "The Corsair". In 1820 he completed the five-act verse tragedy Cromwell. After writing several novels, in 1832 Balzac conceived the idea for an enormous series of books…

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Lifespan: 1799–1850
Nationality: FR, FRA
Role / Field: Novelist, Ecrivains, Romanciers, Playwright, Novelists, Literature
Language: fre, fra
Gender: Male

Recorded by 48 libraries

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Tours
Place of death: Paris
Spouse: Ewelina Hańska
Occupation: publisher
Educated at: Paris Law Faculty
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Religion: Catholicism
Notable work: Les Chouans
Academic degree: Bachelor of Laws
Student of: Victor Cousin
Field of work: literary criticism
Movement: literary realism
Image: Honoré de Balzac (1842) detail.jpg

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has works in the collection: Anne Frank House
place of burial: Père Lachaise Cemetery
Commons gallery: Honoré de Balzac
Commons category: Honoré de Balzac
date of birth: 1799-01-01
date of death: 1851-08-19
topic's main category: Category:Honoré de Balzac
Commons Creator page: Honoré de Balzac
pseudonym: Saint Aubin
name in native language: Honoré de Balzac
manner of death: natural causes
influenced by: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
cause of death: gangrene
start of work period: 1829-00-00
has written for: Le Siècle
writing language: French
last words: Appelez Bianchon ! Seul Bianchon peut me sauver !
P8168: Paolo Quinteros
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P12674: Maxim Biller
P12749: Bättwil

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Honoré de Balzac, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

El padre Goriot

Le médecin de campagne

Eugenia Grandet [Printed Text]

Scénes de la vie militaire et scénes de la vie de campagne

La Recherche De L'Absolu

Dinah Piédefer

Les Petits Manéges D'Une Femme Vertueuse

Orsola Mirouet. Novella recata in Italiana per cura di Ercole Marenesi

A gloomy intrigue, scene of political life. First French version by Antonio Bassalini

Cristoforo Lecamus, ovvero Catarina de Medici e Maria Stuarda regine di Francia. Versione con note di Francesco Gandini. (Con un rame.)

Don Gigadas, French version by Carlo Vitali. (With branches.)

Il curato del villaggio versione dal francese di Giuseppe Berta

Papa Goriot. Storia Parigina. Versione italiana di L ..... M

Études analytiques Jesus-Christ en Flandre, Melmoth réconcilié, Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu - La recherche de l'absolu :

Alberto Savarus

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Encyclopedic overview

Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbæl.zæk/ BAL-zak, more commonly US: /ˈbɔːl.-/ BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and continue to inspire other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."

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