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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. (Source.)

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Born 20 May 1799
Died 18 August 1850

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French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Born 20 May 1799
Died 18 August 1850

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