Honor%C3%A9 de Balzac
Honor de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comdie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Honor de Balzac was born into a family which through its industry and efforts aspired to achieve respectability. His father, born BernardFranois Balssa, was one of eleven children from an artisan family in Tarn, a region in the south of France. In 1760 he set off for Paris with only a Louis coin in his pocket, intent on improving his social standing by 1776 he had become Secretary to the Kings Council and a Freemason . After the Reign of Terror , Franois Balzac was despatched to Tours to coordinate supplies for the Army.
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