Catherine De Medici

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright whose work had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and subsequent writers. Balzac is best known for his grand multi-volume series 'La Comédie humaine', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, and is typically regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. His keen observation of deta...