Full Name: Honoré de Balzac
Nickname: Don't have a Nickname

Father: Bernard-François Balssa
Mother: Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier
Girlfriend: Laure de Berny
Wife: Ewelina Hańska (m. Mar-1850)

Date of Birth: 20 May 1799
Birth Place: Tours, France

Date of Death: 18 August 1850 (aged 51)
Death Place: Paris, France
Cause of Death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Oratorian grammar school, University of Paris
Occupation: Novelist, Dramatist

Influenced By: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Dante Alighieri, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare.

Influenced: Italo Calvino, Marie Corelli, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Engels, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust.

Major Writings: Colonel Chabert (1829); Louis Lambert (1832); Eugénie Grandet (1833); Séraphita (1835); Le Lys dans La vallée (1836); César Birotteau (1837); Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées (1842); Un Homme d'affaires (1845); Les comédiens sans le savoir (1847).

French novelist and dramatist Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799-18 August 1850) presents a panorama of French life through his short stories and novels after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. He is considered one of the greatest novelists in world literature and the founder of Realism. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists and philosophers including Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

Early Life & Childhood: Honoré de Balzac was born on 20 May 1799 in Tours, France. At the age of 8, he was sent to the Oratorian grammar school in Vendôme, where he studied for 7 years. It was difficult for him to adapt to the role of this school. After then, he attended the Collège de Vendôme. In 1814, his family moved to Paris. In Paris, Balzac studied with private tutors and schools for the next two and a half years. In 1816, he entered the University of Paris where he studied civil and criminal law. In 1822, Balzac published Clotilde de Lusignan. Then he wrote La Dernière Fée.

Personal Life: Honoré de Balzac father was Bernard-François Balssa and mother named Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier. He came from a poor family. In 1821, he met Laure de Berny who inspired his early writings. In March 1850, Balzac married Ewelina Hańska after long-time love but unfortunately, he died five months later.

Later Life & Death: In 1829, Honoré de Balzac published his historical/political novel Les Chouans. In 1831, he published Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, where he deals with philosophical views. An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Le Père Goriot was published in 1835. In 1836, Balzac published a poetic novel named Le Lys dans la vallée. In 1847, Balzac moved to Ukraine and then Paris. Honoré de Balzac died on 18 August 1850. He was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.