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Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 May 1799, 1799
- Died
- 18 August 1850
- Place of birth
- Tours
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Honoré
- Family name
- de Balzac
- Father
- Bernard-François Balzac
- Spouse
- Ewelina Hańska
- Sibling
- Laure Surville
- Movement
- literary realism
- Field of work
- French literature, journalism, literary criticism
- Occupation
- novelist, literary critic, writer, prose writer, journalist, art critic, essayist, dramaturge, publisher
- Position held
- president of the Société des gens de lettres
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Laws
- cause of death
- gangrene
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopedic Lexicon, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, New International Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work, Pax Leksikon, Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- University of Paris, Lycée Charlemagne, Paris Law Faculty
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Anne Frank House
- has written for
- Revue des Deux Mondes, La Presse, Le Constitutionnel, Le Siècle
- influenced by
- Walter Scott, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- last words
- Appelez Bianchon ! Seul Bianchon peut me sauver !
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Honoré de Balzac
- notable work
- Père Goriot, The Human Comedy, Illusions perdues, Eugénie Grandet, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, La Peau de chagrin, Les Chouans
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Grave of Balzac and Ewelina Hańska
- pseudonym
- Horace de Saint-Aubin, Lord R’Hoone, Viellerglé, Saint Aubin
- start of work period
- 1829
- student of
- François Guizot, Abel-François Villemain, Victor Cousin
- topic's main category
- Category:Honoré de Balzac
- unmarried partner
- Olympe Pélissier, Maria du Fresnay, Caroline Marbouty, Laure de Berny, Henriette de Maillé de La Tour-Landry
- uses
- Aurore Cloteaux
- writing language
- French
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