Balzac

[bawl-zak, bal-; Fr. bal-zak]

noun

Ho·no·ré de

[on-uh-rey duh; Fr. aw-naw-rey duh] , 1799–1850, French novelist.

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Balzac (ˈbælzæk, French balzak)

—n
	Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799--1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine, including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)

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