Balzac Honoré de

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.
Bal·zac′i·an (-zăk′ē-ən) adj.