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About Honore de Balzac
French novelist and playwright
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. He is best known for La Comédie humaine, the ambitious novel sequence that portrays French life after Napoleon. That body of work is generally regarded as his magnum opus, and it gave him a lasting place in literary history. His writing is associated with broad social observation and the detailed depiction of modern French society.
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