Balzac

[bawl-zak, bal-, bal-zak]

noun

1. Honoré de 1799–1850, French novelist.

Balzac

/ ˈbælzæk, balzak /

noun

1. Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799–1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine , including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)

Example Sentences

Honoré de Balzac once warned that collecting was driven by a “jealous demon.”

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Beginning June 1, after a two-year renovation, Hôtel Balzac, a member of Relais & Châteaux, the luxury hotel and restaurant network, is planning to open in the Eighth Arrondissement, within walking distance of the Champs-Élysées.

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In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire.

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At an elevation, he looked like a haggard Rodin bust of Balzac.

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Until then, however, remember Honoré de Balzac’s advice: “Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.”

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