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


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