Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. The structure of La Comédie humaine is as follows: • Études de mœurs: - Scènes de la vie de campagne - Scènes de la vie militaire - Scènes de la vie parisienne - Scènes de la vie politique - Scènes de la vie privée - Scènes de la vie de province • Études philosophiques • Études analytiques