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He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France in the rue de l'Armée Italienne.
In 1849, when his health had broken down, he travelled to Poland to visit Eveline Hanska , a rich Polish lady, with whom he had corresponded for more than 15 years. In 1850 she became his wife, and three months later, Balzac died.
He would become one of the creators of Realism in literature, though his work is still largely in the tradition of French Literary Romanticism. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine) spanned more than 90 novels and short stories in an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in modern bourgeois France.
Balzac's work habits are legendarily intimidating - he wrote for up to 15 hours a day, fuelled by innumerable cups of black coffee. Because of this extraordinarily large output, many of the novels display minor imperfections and in some cases outright careless writing. Several, however, are widely recognized to be masterpieces:
Balzac's realistic prose and his strength as an encyclopedic recorder of his age outshine any small detracting qualities of his style to make him a DickensianCharles John Huffam Dickens ( February 7, 1812 June 9, 1870), pen-name " Boz", was an English novelist of the Victorian era. The popularity of his books during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none of his novels has ever go bastion of French literature.
Balzac is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to, France. He is commemorated by a monumental statue which Auguste RodinThe Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. Auguste Rodin ( November 12, 1840 November 17, 1917) was a French sculptor. Born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin in Paris, France, he stands at the culmination of the figurative tradition in sculpture, as after him sc was commissioned to sculpt.
Balzac's works have fallen into the public domainThe public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. Proprietary interest is typically represented by a cop, and a number of them are available online from Project Gutenberg. Balzac undertook a huge project: The Human Comedy, which is a collection of about 100 linked stories and novels. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Haha, his name is Honore de Balzac, which sounds like "honour the ballsack", which is hilarious. The Balzac Plan of the Comedie Humaine is as follows: