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Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈbælzæk / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈbɔːl -/ BAWL-; [3][4][5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d (ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as ...
Honoré de Balzac, nom de plume d'Honoré Balzac [n 1], né le 20 mai 1799 (1 er prairial an VII du calendrier républicain) à Tours et mort le 18 août 1850 à Paris, est un écrivain français.
- Family and Early Life
- Early Career
- La Comedie Humaine
- Social and Family Life
- Death and Literary Legacy
- Sources
Honoré’s father, Bernard-Francois Balssa, was from a large lower-class family. As a young man, he worked hard to climb up the social ladder and eventually did so, working for the governments of both Louis XVI and, later, Napoleon. He changed his name to Francois Balzac to sound more like the aristocrats he now interacted with, and eventually marrie...
Honoré began his attempts at a literary career as a playwright, then, under a pseudonym, as a co-writer of “potboiler” novels: quickly-written, often scandalous novels, the equivalent of modern-day “trashy” paperbacks. He tried his hand at journalism, commenting on the political and cultural state of the post-Napoleon erain France, and failed miser...
In 1829, he wrote Les Chouans, the first novel he published under his own name. This would become the first entry into his career-defining work: a series of intertwined stories depicting various facets of French life during the Restoration and July Monarchy periods (that is, from about 1815 to 1848). When he published his next novel, El Verdugo, he...
Despite his obsessive work life, Honoré managed to have a thriving social life. He was popular in society circles for his storytelling prowess, and he counted other famous figures of the day – including fellow novelist Victor Hugo– among his acquaintance. His first love was Maria Du Fresnay, a fellow writer who was unhappily married to a much older...
Honoré only enjoyed his marriage for a few months before he fell ill. His mother arrived in time to say goodbye, and his friend Victor Hugo visited him on the day before his death. Honoré de Balzac died quietly on August 18, 1850. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and a statue of him, the Balzac Monument, sits at a nearby intersectio...
Brunetiere, Ferdinand. Honoré de Balzac.J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1906.“Honore de Balzac.” New World Encyclopedia, 13 January 2018, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Honore_de_Balzac.“Honore de Balzac.” Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 14 August 2018, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Honore-de-Balzac.Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1994.- Amanda Prahl
Honoré de Balzac was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).
Mar 13, 2023 · Qui est Honoré de Balzac ? Honoré Balzac naît à Tours le 20 mai 1799. Son père, Bernard-François Balzac, d’origine paysanne, a vu sa famille évoluer avant la Révolution et se classer parmi les bourgeois, à la fois nantis et toujours en quête de nouvelles richesses.
The Human Comedy, a vast series of some 90 novels and novellas by Honoré de Balzac, known in the original French as La Comédie humaine. The books that made up the series were published between 1829 and 1847. Balzac’s plan to produce a unified series of books that would comprehend the whole of.
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