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La Comédie humaine - Volume 01

By Honoré de Balzac

2019-11-22 22:18:04

Brief Extract: Balzac was born in Tours on May 16, 1799, the feast day of Saint Honoré, whose name was given him, which sounded good and auspicious. Little Honore was not a child prodigy; he did not announce prematurely that he would do the human co ... Read more
Brief Extract: Balzac was born in Tours on May 16, 1799, the feast day of Saint Honoré, whose name was given him, which sounded good and auspicious. Little Honore was not a child prodigy; he did not announce prematurely that he would do the human comedy . He was a fresh, vermeil, well-behaved, playful man, with bright, gentle eyes, but nothing to distinguish him from the others, at least from unkind eyes. At the age of seven, at the end of an externship at Tours, he was placed in the college of Vendome, held by Oratorians, where he passed for a very mediocre pupil. Less

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File size1068.795 KB
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PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1346190723
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Honoré de Balzac
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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 pan...

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