Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), was a French novelist. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France in the rue de l'Armée Italienne. Location within France Tours is a city in France, the préfecture (capital city) of the Indre-et-Loire département, on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. ... Indre-et-Loire is a département in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers. ...

Arriving in Paris as a young man he mingled with the "children of the new century" who saw around them the ruins of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic empire, and who embraced creativity and personal excess with equal measures of disillusionment and idealism. In a long series of interconnected novels he set out to describe the society around him where a new, false aristocracy based on wealth and corruption had replaced the certainties of the Ancien Régime (Old Order). Religion, which had sanctioned the old hierarchy, had gone and a "new priesthood" of financiers had sprung up to be the new controllers of destinies. "There is nothing left for literature but mockery in a world that has collapsed" he wrote in 1831, but the view of humanity that emerges from his novels is not as jaded as this suggests -- it is moral and analytic, and as a result he is still widely read. Having first got into print by writing pot-boiler historical novels in the style of Walter Scott, it occurred to him that the modern history around him was as vivid and as full of intrigue as any scenario of the past, and capable of an equally vivid treatment. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ...

In 1849, when his health had broken down, he travelled to Poland to visit Eveline Hanska, a rich Polish lady, with whom he had corresponded for more than 15 years. In 1850 she became his wife, and three months later, Balzac died. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Noble Family Rzewuski Coat of Arms Krzywda Parents Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski Justyna Rdułtowska Consorts Wacław Hański Honoré de Balzac Children with Wacław Hański Anna Hańska Date of Birth January 6, 1801 Place of Birth Pohrebyszcze Date of Death April 10, 1882 Place of Death Paris Countess Ewelina Hańska nee Rzewuska... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He would become one of the creators of Realism in literature, though his work lies still largely in the tradition of French Literary Romanticism. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine) spanned more than 90 novels and short stories in an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. Realism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... romanticism - error - you are to thick to read this muhahahahahahahahah ...

Balzac had legendarily intimidating work habits - he wrote for up to 15 hours a day, fuelled by innumerable cups of black coffee. Because of this extraordinarily large output, many of the novels display minor imperfections and in some cases outright careless writing. Several, however, have achieved a widely-held reputation as masterpieces: Coffee beans and a cup of coffee Coffee as a drink, usually served hot, is prepared from the roasted seeds (beans) of the coffee plant. ...

• (1831) La peau de chagrin
• (1833) Eugènie Grandet
• (1835) Le père Goriot [1] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Le_p%C3%A8re_Goriot)
• (1837) Les illusions perdues (I, 1837; II, 1839; III, 1843)
• (1846) La Cousine Bette

Balzac's realistic prose and his strength as an encyclopedic recorder of his age outshine any small detracting qualities of his style to make him a Dickensian bastion of French literature. La peau de chagrin (1831) is a novel by Honore dé Balzac, whose title is often translated as The Wild-Asss Skin. ... Eugénie Grandet (1834) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. ... Le Père Goriot (English title: Old Goriot) is a 1835 novel written by Honoré de Balzac. ... La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac. ... Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. ...

Balzac lies buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. He is commemorated by a monumental statue commissioned from Auguste Rodin. The Cimetière du Père Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Rodins The Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. ...

The Human Comedy

Balzac's works have fallen into the public domain, and a number of them are available online from Project Gutenberg. Balzac undertook a huge project: The Human Comedy, which is a collection of about 100 linked stories and novels. The title of the series is a reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy." While Balzac sought the comprehensive scope of Dante, his title indicates the wordly, human concerns of a realist novelist. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. The Balzac Plan of the Comédie Humaine comprises: The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. ...

Bust of Balzac by Auguste Rodin, in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Download high resolution version (800x1005, 111 KB)Bust of Honoré de Balzac by Auguste Rodin, bronze (1891-1892), in the Victoria and Albert Museum Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 3 December 2004. ... Download high resolution version (800x1005, 111 KB)Bust of Honoré de Balzac by Auguste Rodin, bronze (1891-1892), in the Victoria and Albert Museum Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 3 December 2004. ... Rodins The Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. ... The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) is on Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London. ...

Scenes From Provincial Life

• Ursule Mirouet
• Eugenie Grandet
• The Celibates:
  • Pierrette
  • The Vicar of Tours
• A Bachelor's Establishment
• The Two Brothers
• The Black Sheep
• Parisians in the Country:
  • Gaudissart the Great or The Illustrious Gaudissart
  • The Muse of the Department
• The Jealousies of a Country Town:
  • The Old Maid
  • The Collection of Antiquities
• The Lily of the Valley
• Lost Illusions:--I.
  • The Two Poets
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 1
• Lost Illusions:--II.
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 2
  • Eve and David

Scenes From Parisian Life

• Scenes from a Courtesan's Life:
  • Esther Happy
  • What Love Costs an Old Man
  • The End of Evil Ways
  • Vautrin's Last Avatar
• A Prince of Bohemia
• A Man of Business
• Gaudissart II.
• The Unwitting Actors or The Unwitting Comedians
• The Thirteen:
  • Ferragus
  • The Duchesse de Langeais
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes
• Father Goriot (Le père Goriot)
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
• The Firm of Nucingen
• The Secrets of a Princess or The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan
• The Government Clerks
• Bureaucracy
• Sarrasine
• Facine Cane
• Poor Relations:--I.
  • Cousin Betty
• Poor Relations:--II.
  • Cousin Pons
• The Middle Classes or The Lesser Bourgeoise

Le Père Goriot (English title: Old Goriot) is a 1835 novel written by Honoré de Balzac. ...

Scenes From Political Life

• The Gondreville Mystery or An Historical Mystery
• An Episode Under the Terror
• The Seamy Side of History: or The Brotherhood of Consolation:
  • Madame de la Chanterie
  • Initiated or The Initiate
• Z. Marcas
• The Member for Arcis or The Deputy for Arcis

Scenes From Military Life

• The Chouans
• A Passion in the Desert

Scenes From Country Life

• The Country Doctor
• The Country Parson or The Village Rector
• The Peasantry or Sons of the Soil

Philosophical Studies

• The Magic Skin
• The Quest of the Absolute or The Alkahest
• Christ in Flanders
• Melmoth Reconciled
• The Unknown Masterpiece or The Hidden Masterpiece
• The Hated Son
• Gambara
• Massimilla Doni
• The Maranas or Juana
• Farewell
• The Conscript or The Recruit
• El Verdugo
• A Seaside Tragedy or A Drama on the Seashore
• The Red Inn
• The Elixir of Life
• Maitre Cornelius
• About Catherine de' Medici
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
• Louis Lambert
• The Exiles
• Seraphita

External links

• Works by Honoré de Balzac (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Honore_de_Balzac) at Project Gutenberg
• Free eBook of Honore de Balzac by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3625) at Project Gutenberg
• Comprehensive works with dates (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm)

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