Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (French pronunciation: [ɔnɔʁe də balzak]; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His most famous work is La Comédie humaine. It is a collection of novels and short stories and is about French life after 1815. La Peau de chagrin (1831), Eugénie Grandet (1833) and Le Père Goriot (1835) are some of the most famous works from this collection. His books influenced many other people such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe.
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| Born | 20 May 1799 |
| Died | 18 August 1850 (age 51) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright |
| Spouse(s) | Ewelina Hańska |
Works
Tragic verse
- Cromwell (1819)
Incomplete at time of death
- Le Corsaire (opera)
- Sténie
- Falthurne
- Corsino
Published pseudonymously
As "Lord R'Hoone", in collaboration
- L'Héritière de Birague (1822)
- Jean-Louis (1822)
As "Horace de Saint-Aubin"
- Clotilde de Lusignan (1822)
- Le Centenaire (1822)
- Le Vicaire des Ardennes (1822)
- La Dernière Fée (1823)
- Annette et le Criminal (Argow le Pirate) (1824)
- Wann-Chlore (1826)
Published anonymously
- Du Droit d'aînesse (1824)
- Histoire impartiale des Jésuites (1824)
- Code des gens honnêtes (1826)
Selected titles from La Comédie humaine
- Les Chouans (1829)
- Sarrasine (1830)
- La Peau de chagrin (1831)
- Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
- Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
- Le Curé de Tours (1832)
- La Fille aux yeux d'or (1833)
- Eugénie Grandet (1833)
- Le Contrat de mariage (1835)
- Le Père Goriot (1835)
- Le Lys dans la vallée (1835)
- La Rabouilleuse (1842)
- Illusions perdues (I, 1837; II, 1839; III, 1843)
- La Cousine Bette (1846)
- Le Cousin Pons (1847)
- Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1847)
Plays
- L'École des ménages (1839)
- Vautrin (1839)
- Les Ressources de Quinola (1842)
- Paméla Giraud (1842)
- La Marâtre (1848)
- Mercadet ou le faiseur (1848)
Tales
- Contes drolatiques (1832–37)
- La Grande Bretèche
- An Episode of terror
Honoré De Balzac Media
Drawing of Balzac in the mid-1820s, attributed to Achille Devéria
The Maison de Balzac is one of three Parisian literary museums.
Balzac caricature by Nadar in 1850
Portrait of Honoré de Balzac by Jean Alfred Gérard-Séguin (1842)
Initial proofs of Béatrix 
Countess Ewelina Hańska miniature by Holz von Sowgen (1825)
Portrait of Balzac in his famous dressing gown, by Louis Boulanger.
Balzac's statue in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
