Balzac Honoré de
Bal·zac
(bôl′zăk′, băl′-, 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·zac′i·an (-zăk′ē-ən) adj.
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