Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright who was a leading figure of 19th-century literary realism; he is best known for the vast series La Comédie Humaine and for essays such as Physiologie du mariage which examine social institutions like marriage.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Tours
- Educated at
- University of ParisLycée CharlemagneParis Law Faculty
- Awards
- 🏆 Q130762055🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an except…"
"Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting."
"The tiniest flower is a thought, — a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition."
"Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depre…"
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Timeline
1799
Born
Birth1850
Died
Death
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