Balzac

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Bal·zac (bôl

, b

-, 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 (-z

n) adj.

Balzac [ˈbælzæk (French) balzak]

(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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Balzac - French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)

Honore Balzac, Honore de Balzac

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