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.)
Honoré de Balzac
Author details
- Geboren
- 20. Mai 1799
- Gestorben
- 18. August 1850
