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Honoré de Balzac

1799 - 1850

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Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, more commonly US: BAWL-, French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Honoré de Balzac has received more than 3,317,417 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Honoré de Balzac is the 29th most popular writer (down from 15th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from France (down from 15th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Writer.

Honoré de Balzac is most famous for his novel "La Comédie Humaine," which is a series of novels that depict French society in the early 1800s.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Honoré de Balzac ranks 29 out of 5,755. Before him are Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, Anne Frank, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Rumi. After him are Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Horace, Alexandre Dumas, Aeschylus, and Oscar Wilde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Honoré de Balzac ranks 1. After him are Alexander Pushkin, Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Karl Bryullov, William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1850, Honoré de Balzac ranks 1. After him are Louis Philippe I, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, William Wordsworth, Daoguang Emperor, Zachary Taylor, Báb, José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, Frédéric Bastiat, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Louise of Orléans.

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In France

Among people born in France, Honoré de Balzac ranks 22 out of 6,011. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), Alain Delon (1935), and Émile Durkheim (1858). After him are Napoleon III (1808), Coco Chanel (1883), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Honoré de Balzac ranks 7. Before him are Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Molière (1622), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900). After him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Émile Zola (1840).

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