Honoré de Balzac, born Honoré Balzac on May 20, 1799 (1st prairial year VII of the republican calendar) in Tours and died on August 18, 1850 (aged 51) in Paris, is a French writer.
Novelist, playwright, literary critic, art critic, essayist, journalist and printer, he left one of the most impressive romantic works of French literature, with more than ninety novels and short stories published from 1829 to 1855 , collected under the title La Comédie Humaine.
Added to this are Les Cent Contes drolatiques, as well as youth novels published under pseudonyms and some twenty-five sketched works.
Born of an imperial civil servant father, Honoré de Balzac was fostered and grew up far from a mother who preferred an illegitimate child.
In 1814, his family moved to Paris.
After studying law, Honoré de Balzac entered the law firm of Maître Guillonet Merville as a notary clerk.
But he refuses to embrace this career and becomes a journalist and novelist....
Novelist, playwright, literary critic, art critic, essayist, journalist and printer, he left one of the most impressive romantic works of French literature, with more than ninety novels and short stories published from 1829 to 1855 , collected under the title La Comédie Humaine.
Added to this are Les Cent Contes drolatiques, as well as youth novels published under pseudonyms and some twenty-five sketched works.
Born of an imperial civil servant father, Honoré de Balzac was fostered and grew up far from a mother who preferred an illegitimate child.
In 1814, his family moved to Paris.
After studying law, Honoré de Balzac entered the law firm of Maître Guillonet Merville as a notary clerk.
But he refuses to embrace this career and becomes a journalist and novelist....
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