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Balzac, Honoré de

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  1. 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, expanded his novels in proof, 15.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

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