Honoré de Balzac
20 May 1799 — 18 August 1850
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 39, 24.
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