Honoré de 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. Wikipedia
Born: May 20, 1799, Tours, France
Died: August 18, 1850 (age 51 years), Paris, France
Influenced by: William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Walter Scott, and more
Place of burial: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
Children: Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay
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