Balzac

Bal·zac

B0050600 (bôl′zăk′, 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.

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Bal·zac′i·an (-zăk′ē-ən) adj.

Balzac

(ˈbælzæk; French balzak) n (Biography) Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799–1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine, including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)

Bal•zac

(ˈbɔl zæk, ˈbæl-; Fr. balˈzak)

n. Honoré de, 1799–1850, French novelist.

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Balzac - French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)Honore Balzac, Honore de Balzac