Honoré de Balzac

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French writer human novelist playwright

Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.

Aliases (2)

Balzac ×2
Honoré Balzac ×1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French writer → human → novelist → playwright →
birthName	Honoré Balzac →
burialPlace	Père Lachaise Cemetery →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1799-05-20 →
dateOfDeath	1850-08-18 →
dateOfMarriage	1850-03-14 →
describedBy	La Comédie humaine portrays French society after the fall of Napoleon →
educatedAt	Collège de Vendôme →
familyName	Balzac →
father	Bernard-François Balzac →
fieldOfWork	literature → theatre →
fullName	Honoré de Balzac →
genre	drama → realist novel → short story →
givenName	Honoré →
hasPart	Scènes de la vie de campagne → Scènes de la vie de province → Scènes de la vie militaire → Scènes de la vie parisienne → Scènes de la vie politique → Scènes de la vie privée →
hasSignature	Balzac signature image →
influenced	Charles Dickens → Fyodor Dostoevsky → Marcel Proust → Émile Zola →
influencedBy	Walter Scott →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
mother	Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier →
movement	realism →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableWork	Eugénie Grandet → Illusions perdues → La Comédie humaine → La Cousine Bette → La Peau de chagrin → Le Colonel Chabert → Le Lys dans la vallée → Le Père Goriot → Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes →
occupation	journalist → novelist → playwright → publisher → short story writer →
placeOfBirth	Tours, France →
placeOfDeath	Paris, France →
placeOfMarriage	Berditchev, Russian Empire →
residence	Paris, France →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Ewelina Hańska →
workPeriod	19th century →

Referenced by (56)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Eugénie Grandet → Illusions perdues → La Comédie humaine → La Comédie humaine → La Cousine Bette → La Peau de chagrin → Le Colonel Chabert → Le Lys dans la vallée → Le Père Goriot → Scènes de la vie de province → Scènes de la vie militaire → Scènes de la vie parisienne → Scènes de la vie politique → Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes →	author
Arnold Bennett → Auguste Rodin → Charles Baudelaire → Eça de Queirós → Fyodor Dostoevsky → Gustave Flaubert → Marcel Proust → Nana → Theodore Dreiser → Thérèse Raquin → William Dean Howells → Émile Zola →	influencedBy
La Comédie humaine → La Comédie humaine → Scènes de la vie de province → Scènes de la vie militaire → Scènes de la vie parisienne → Scènes de la vie politique →	creator
Charles Maturin → Denis Diderot → James Fenimore Cooper → Sir Walter Scott →	influenced
Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier → Bernard-François Balzac →	child
Honoré de Balzac ("Honoré Balzac") →	birthName
Père Lachaise Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Ewelina Hańska →	correspondentOf
La Peau de chagrin →	createdBy
Collège de Vendôme →	educated
Honoré de Balzac ("Balzac") →	familyName
Honoré de Balzac →	fullName
Ewelina Hańska →	hasInfluenced
Honoré →	isGivenNameOf
Collège de Vendôme →	notableAlumnus
Realism →	notableProponent
Auguste Rodin ("Balzac") →	notableWork
Scènes de la vie militaire →	notableWorkOf
Bernard-François Balzac →	relative
Ewelina Hańska →	spouse
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes →	workByAuthor
Illusions perdues →	workOfAuthor
Le Colonel Chabert →	writtenBy