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7 unusual facts about Honoré de Balzac


Annemarie Kleinert

previously unknown early works of the French author Honoré de Balzac.

Battle of Aspern-Essling

The concept and notes for the book originally came from noted French author Honoré de Balzac.

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

She also associated with the European artistic intelligentsia, including Alexis de Tocqueville, Honoré de Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine, and Franz Liszt.

Jean-François Barrière

He wrote about the French revolution, most notably an annotated biography of Madame Roland entitled Memoirs de Madame Roland, Avec une Notice sur sa Vie, des Notes et des Eclaircissemens historiques par MM. Saint-Albin Berville et Jean-François Barrière, edited and published in 1827 by Honoré de Balzac.

Paul, 6th duc de Noailles

As Honoré de Balzac at that time obtained only four votes, this development occasioned an outburst of protest in the literary press.

Sam Crawford

During the Ritter interviews, he quoted from the works of philosopher George Santayana and abolitionist Robert Ingersoll, and discussed the works of one of his favorite writers, Honoré de Balzac.

Stanley Hollingsworth

"La Grande Bretèche" (1954), a one-act opera with libretto by the composer and Harry Duncan, after Honoré de Balzac


Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

Other major literary influences included the Greek Classics, Balzac, Dostoievski, Thomas Mann, Will Durant and Arnold Toynbee.

Aram Haigaz

He worked as an apprentice photo-engraver at the New York newspaper, The Daily Mirror, and studied English at night, reading extensively the great world and American classics – from Kipling and Balzac to Poe.

Armorial de la Comédie Humaine

Armorial de la Comédie Humaine is an armorial describing the coats of arms of the fictional characters in the literary works collectivelly called La Comédie humaine, written by Honoré de Balzac.

Café Philosophique

Certain intellectuals that have frequented the cafe for philosophical discussions throughout history have been Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Honoré de Balzac Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, François-Marie Arouet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, Honoré de Balzac and Denis Diderot amongst others.

Death of the Author

He introduces this notion in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls in love with him.

Ellen Marriage

A. R. Waller, a critic who was a neighbour of the Marriage family, suggested she do translations when he proposed to the London publisher J. M. Dent that his firm embark on the first complete edition of Balzac's immense novel cycle La Comédie humaine.

Gatianus of Tours

Petty ambitions and little tragedies of mid-19th century provincial life, centered on the cathedral, are portrayed in Honoré de Balzac's Le Curé de Tours ("The curate of Tours").

Hôtel de Massa

Befittingly, the hotel now sits steps away from where Honoré de Balzac wrote Les Chouans, Histoire des Treize, La Femme de trente ans and the start of his la Comédie humaine.

Isabelle Aboulker

To celebrate the second centenary of Honoré de Balzac’s birth that same year she was commissioned by the Grand Theatre in Tours to write the comic opera Monsieur de Balzac fait son theatre.

Jean Chouan

Most notably, Honoré de Balzac drew from this history in writing the last of his series of novels, La Comédie humaine, — a work called "The Chouans".

Milan Crnković

He published about one-hundred research and literary papers, several translations from French (Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, François Souchal) English (Daniel Dafoe, Albert Manfred, James Michener, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Singer, and James Thurber) and Russian (Kornej Cukovski).

Pecunia non olet

"Vespasian's axiom" is referred to in passing in the Balzac short story Sarrasine in connection with the mysterious origins of the wealth of a Parisian family.

Pont-de-Ruan

It is known for picturesque water mills and goat cheese, and Balzac champions its beauty in The Lily of the Valley.

Quai Voltaire

After Honoré de Balzac set his novel La Peau de chagrin in the Quai Voltaire, antique shops became common in the quai.

Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis

Félicité de Genlis appears as a character in the works of the following writers, among others: Honoré de Balzac (Illusions perdues), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and Jane Austen (Emma).

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

He died in Menton, France in 1928, the day before his 61st birthday, in the residence of Fontana Rosa (also named the House of Writers, dedicated to Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac) that he built.

Yves Beauchemin

The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol.


see also

Country Doctor

Le Médecin de campagne (English: The Country Doctor), an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac

Lost Illusions

Illusions perdues, serial novel published by Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843