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Human Comedy, The
noun
- French La Comédie Humaine, a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
The Human Comedy
- A series of novels by Honoré de Balzac . A forerunner of naturalism , The Human Comedy (or, La Comédie humaine , published in the 1830s and 1940s) portrays the complexity of French society.
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