The Red Inn

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright, renowned for his multi-faceted characters and detailed depiction of society. His magnum opus, 'La Comédie Humaine,' consists of over ninety novels and stories that present a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, which collectively are among the crowning achievements of nineteenth-century realism. 'The Red Inn,' one of the storie...