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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head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris (in the 8th arrondissement). Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef...
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longer existing). In 1907, he designed the villa Dupont, located at 2 rue Balzac in Franconville, Val-d'Oise, in the Paris suburbs. He died in 1929, and...
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Hayman died on 22 April 1940, at the age of 88, in her home in Paris, 11, rue Balzac. She was buried three days later at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (division...
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The Maison de Balzac (English: Balzac's House) is a writer's house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It...
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brands have their main store in 8th arrondissement, Avenue Montaigne or Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, both in the Champs-Élysées Avenue shopping district...
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Beauvoir. Rue de Seine is the title of a 2006 album by Martial Solal and Dave Douglas. In the French novel La Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac, the...
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novel Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants, by Honoré de Balzac, the widow Gruget lives at no 12 in the Rue des Enfants-Rouges. This is where Jules Desmarets...
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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 depicting...
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Ewelina Hańska (category Honoré de Balzac)
Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia (now Ukraine), Hańska married...
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The Rue Foyatier is a street on the Montmartre butte ("outlier"), in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Opened in 1867, it was given its current name in...
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but registered the aluminium sales of the national groups. Paris, 23 rue Balzac, the former building of the Pechiney corporation which housed the national...
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the rue Visconti studio of Henri Le Fauconnier. Their first diner presided over by neo-symbolist Paul Fort was held at the house of Balzac, rue Raynouard...
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Rothschild 11, rue Berryer 8th arrondissement Place de Rio de Janeiro and 4, Avenue Ruysdaël (overlooking the Parc Monceau) 8th arrondissement Rue Balzac 8th arrondissement...
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The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (pronounced [ʁy dy fobuʁ sɛ̃tɔnɔʁe]) is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow...
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old residences. For Honoré de Balzac "The heart of Paris today beats between the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre." In 1840...
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Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (category Short stories by Honoré de Balzac)
identified with Frenhofer so much that he moved to the rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris where Balzac located Porbus' studio. There he painted his own masterpiece...
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The Rue Nationale is one of the oldest streets and the busiest shopping street in the city of Tours. The Rue Nationale is located in the center of Tours...
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the Miraculous Medal". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018. Balzac explains the very specific Faubourg's aristocratic way of life in his novel...
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Père Goriot (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
"Father Goriot") is 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...
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Jacques-Louis David, Alfred de Musset, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Honoré de Balzac, Théodore Géricault, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred...
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Miss Thompson, Miss Brockington, Miss Clifford, Miss Chambers" "Honoré de Balzac" "Sam Catanzaro" "Vahan Minasian" "Geoffrey Faber" "Robert McAlmon" "Lawrence...
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Chopin and Gioacchino Rossini), writers (including Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, and Marcel Proust), painters (Camille Pissarro, Jacques-Louis David, Eugène...
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current Boulevard Saint-Michel), the Rue Saint-Dominique, Rue Taranne, Rue Sainte-Marguerite, Rue des Boucheries and Rue des Cordeliers. One landmark removed...
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Pavillon de l'eau Lycée Janson-de-Sailly Maison de Radio France Maison de Balzac Fondation Le Corbusier Guimet Museum Jardin d'Acclimatation Jardin des Serres...
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by rue Montmartre to the west, the Boulevard de Sebastopol to the east, Boulevard Poissonnière and Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle to the north and by rue Reaumur...
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companions bound themselves by vows in the Martyrium of Saint Denis, 11 Rue Yvonne Le Tac, the first step in the creation of the Jesuits. Near the end...
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to Honoré de Balzac. Pélissier and Balzac were lovers for a year, starting in 1830. After Pélissier rejected him, the affair left Balzac full of resentments...
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Sarrasine (category Novellas by Honoré de Balzac)
Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while living alone in the rue Lesdiguières...
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Illusions) by Honoré de Balzac as that of Madame de Bargeton. An Ancient Portal at 59 Rue du Minage (17th century) An Ancient Portal at 61 Rue du Minage (16th...
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