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Balzac

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Bal·zac  (bôlzk, bl-, bäl-zäk), Honoré de 1799-1850.
French writer and a founder of the realist school of fiction who portrayed the panorama of French society in a body of works known collectively as La Comédie Humaine.
Bal·zaci·an (-zk-n) adj.
Balzac [ˈbælzæk (French) balzak]
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(Biographies / Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) M, French, WRITING: novelist) Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799-1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine, including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)
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Noun1.BalzacBalzac - French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
Honore Balzac, Honore de Balzac


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They live only in the Boulevard Haussman, which is less picturesque; but in spite of this they have a great deal of the Balzac tone.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
There was still an hour to luncheon, and with Gibbon in one hand, and Balzac in the other she strolled out of the gate and down the little path of beaten mud between the olive trees on the slope of the hill.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
Indeed, there is no relative of hero or heroine too humble or stupid for such a novelist as the great Balzac.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
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