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• Human Comedy, The
  Human Comedy, The

  noun

  a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
• The Human Comedy
  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.

Human Comedy, The

American  

noun

1. French La Comédie Humaine.  a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.

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The Human Comedy Cultural  

1. 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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