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Honoré de Balzac was born into a family which 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 region in the south of France.
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").
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).
Le Bal de Sceaux (The Ball at Sceaux) is the fifth work of Honoré de Balzac, one of the oldest texts of la Comédie Humaine.. The first edition of this novella was published in 1830 by Mame and Delaunay-Vallée in the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life).
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 Grenadière was the name of a real house in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire where Balzac stayed for a few months in 1830 with his lover Laure de Berny. [2] He attempted to buy the house in 1834, but the deal fell through because of lack of money. [3]
Eveline Hańska (née Ewelina Rzewuska; 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia [ 1 ] (now Ukraine), Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański when she was a teenager. [ 2 ]
Le Message (English "The Message") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1832 and is one of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine . [ 1 ]