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    Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbælzæk/ BAL-zak, more commonly US: /ˈbɔːl-/ BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was...
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    a writer's house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 47, rue Raynouard...
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    humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories...
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  • faire une proposition Que personne ne refuserait. Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres complètes de H. de Balzac (1834), Calmann-Lévy, 1910 (Le Père Goriot, II. L'entrée...
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    Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray...
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    Illusions perdues (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    English, Lost Illusions — is a serial novel written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in provincial...
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    memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the...
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    Rossini. She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes. Honoré de Balzac described her as "the most beautiful courtesan in Paris". Olympe Pélissier...
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    Robert Hale, London 1995. Honoré de Balzac. Un épisode sous la Terreur (fiction) Robert Christophe. Les Sanson, bourreaux de père en fils, pendant deux...
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    Père Goriot (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La...
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    Wild Ass's Skin, is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of...
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    leporc.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-08. Honoré de Balzac also called rillettes "brown jam": Honoré de Balzac, Le Lys dans la Vallée [The lily of the valley]...
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    Gobseck (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
    Gobseck, an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), appears in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie...
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    Ewelina Hańska (category Honoré de Balzac)
    a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia (now Ukraine), Hańska...
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    Ignace Isidore Gérard (J. J. Grandville), Auguste Raffet. and a young Honoré de Balzac as a literary editor, who is reported to have said of Daumier's lithographs...
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  • Lost Illusions (2021 film) (category Films based on works by Honoré de Balzac)
    of Illusions perdues (1837–43) by Honoré de Balzac. It stars Benjamin Voisin, Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, and Jeanne...
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    Miguel Ángel Asturias, Honoré de Balzac, Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Bizet, Frédéric Chopin, Colette, George Enescu, Max Ernst, Olivia de Havilland, Marcel Marceau...
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    Ursule Mirouët (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    to Honoré de Balzac’s series of 94 novels and short stories La Comédie humaine. First published in 1841, it forms part of his Scènes de la vie de province...
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    Colonel Chabert (novella) (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
    Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve)...
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    Le Lys dans la vallée (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    Books, 2024) Honoré de Balzac by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, chapter 4 Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd Balzac, Honoré de; Wormeley, Katharine...
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  • until 1834. Director of the prestigious Revue de Paris which he helped establish, he befriended Honoré de Balzac whose novels he published in the pages of...
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  • The Battle (Rambaud novel) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    New York, 2000. pp. 298–300. ISBN 0-8021-1662-0. Honoré de Balzac (1900). Letters of Honoré de Balzac to Madame Hanska (1833-1846). Little, Brown, and...
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    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Honoré de Balzac, Théodore Géricault, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Jane Stirling, and...
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    the 19th century; or the scope can be general, as in the novels of Honoré de Balzac, which portray the social conventions of 19th-century France with stories...
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  • faire une proposition que personne ne refuserait. Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres complètes de H. de Balzac (1834), Calmann-Lévy, 1910 (Le Père Goriot, II. L'entrée...
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    in 2021, Eugénie Grandet, based upon the novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac, and The Mad Women's Ball (Le Bal des folles), based upon the novel...
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    Stefan Zweig (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three...
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    would shape public opinion in the future, including Honoré de Balzac, Lady Granville and Alphonse de Lamartine. During the last years of his life Talleyrand...
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  • III of Monaco Honoré IV of Monaco Honoré V of Monaco Honoré de Balzac, (1799–1850) French novelist and playwright Honoré Beaugrand, (1848–1906) Canadian...
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    Les Cent Contes drolatiques (category Short stories by Honoré de Balzac)
    Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François...
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