Honoré de Balzac (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died August 18, 1850, Paris) was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy).

Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. He is best known for his magnum opus 'La Comédie Humaine', a series of interconnected novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–1848).

Honoré de Balzac was a 19th century novelist and playwright very well known for his detailed observations and keen sense of uncensored reality. In fact, Balzac is considered one of the founding fathers of European realism. Balzac’s work is said to have influenced several other writers, like Proust, Zola, Flaubert, Dickens or James.