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Honore de Balzac Biography
Balzac, Honore de; born May 20, 1799, Tours, France.
Died August 18, 1850, Paris.
original name Honoré Balssa French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the orthodox classical novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest fiction writers of all time.
Honore de Balzac Early career
Balzac's father was a man of southern peasant stock who worked in the civil service for 43 years under Louis XVI and Napoleon. Honoré's mother came from a family of prosperous Parisian cloth merchants.
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His sister Laure (later de Surville) was his only childhood friend, and she became his first biographer.
Balzac was sent to school at the Collège des Oratoriens at Vendôme from age 8 to 14. At Napoleon's downfall his family moved from Tours to Paris, where he went to school for two more years and then spent three years as a lawyer's cle