Balzac, Honoré de

A nineteenth-century French author. In his long series of novels known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), he portrayed the complexity of contemporary French society.

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Balzac, Honoré de, 397; on women, 346; death of, 433.

Balzac, Honore de, 54, 88, 98, 114.

Balzac, Honoré de, x, xii, xiii, 53, 56, 153, 160, 180; Eugénie Grandet, 168; Human Comedy, 160.

Balzac, Honoré de, xiv, xvi, xvii, 55, 58, 157, 163, 184; Eugénie Grandet, 173; Human Comedy, 163.