Bal·zac 
(bôlzăk′, băl-, bäl-zäk), Honoré de 1799-1850.
(bôlzăk′, băl-, bäl-zäk), 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·zaci·an (-zăkē-ən) adj.