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Bal⋅zac

  [bawl-zak, bal-; Fr. bal-zak]
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–noun
Ho⋅no⋅ré de  [on-uh-rey duh; Fr. aw-naw-rey duh] , 1799–1850, French novelist.
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Bal·zac   (bôl'zāk', bāl'-, bäl-zäk')   
French writer and a founder of the realist school of fiction who portrayed the panorama of French society in a body of works known collectively as La Comédie Humaine.
Bal·zac'i·an (-zāk'ē-ən) adj.
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