Balzac, Honoréde

Bal·zac (bôlʹzăk', bălʹ-, bäl-zäkʹ), Honoré de. 1799-1850.

French writer and a founder of the realist school of fiction who portrayed the panorama of French society in a body of works known collectively as La Comédie Humaine.

  Bal·zacʹi·an (-zăkʹē-ən) adj.

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