Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 · French

Also known as Horace de Saint-Aubin, Lord R’Hoone, Viellerglé, Saint Aubin

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.