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Honoré de Balzac was born into a family that aspired to achieve respectability through its industry and efforts. [8] His father, born Bernard-François Balssa, [ 9 ] was one of eleven children from an artisan family in Tarn , a département in the south-west of France.
Modeste Mignon is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac.It is the fifth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.. The first part of the novel was serialized in a bowdlerized edition in the Journal des débats in April, May and July 1844.
La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (The House of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac.It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée (transl. Scenes of Private Life), which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.
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The first works of Balzac were written without any global plan (Les Chouans is a historical novel; Physiologie du mariage is an analytical study of marriage), but by 1830 Balzac began to group his first novels (Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée ("Scenes from Private Life").
Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade).
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at Vendôme, it examines the life and theories of a boy genius fascinated by the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).