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| Balzac, Honoré de |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bal·zac |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bôl z k , bl-, bäl-zäk |
| DATES: | 1799–1850 |
| French writer and a founder of the realist school of fiction who portrayed the panorama of French society in a body of works known collectively as La Comédie Humaine. | | OTHER FORMS: | Bal·zaci·an (-zk - n) —ADJECTIVE
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