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	Balzac as a Dramatist
		Balzac, in the first place, looked upon the drama as a department of literature inferior to that of romance, and somewhat cavalierly condescended to the stage without reckoning on either its possibilities or its limitations.
		Balzac was especially a novelist of his own period, and the life of his romances is the life he saw going on around him.
		This antipathy is exaggerated by Balzac into murderous hatred, and is the indirect cause of death to the General's daughter, Pauline, and her lover, the son of a soldier of the First Empire, who, by deserting Napoleon, had fallen under the Comte de Grandchamp's ban.
	www.theatrehistory.com /french/balzac001.html (1716 words)

	Honoré de Balzac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With public acclaim and the assurance of publication, Balzac's subsequent novels began to shape themselves into a broad canvas depicting the turbulent unfolding of destinies amidst the visible finery and squalor of Paris, and the dramas hidden under the surface of respectability in the quieter world of provincial family life.
		Balzac's work habits were legendary — he wrote for up to 15 hours a day, fuelled by innumerable cups of fl coffee, and without relinquishing the social life which was the source of his observation and research.
		What Balzac had brought to fiction was the social context, a factor unrecognized by the Romantics, for whom the inner world of the individual was all that counted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balzac (1627 words)

	Honoré de Balzac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Balzac's realistic prose and his strength as an encyclopedic recorder of his age outshine any small detracting qualities of his style to make him a (Click link for more info and facts about Dickensian) Dickensian bastion of French literature.
		Balzac's works have fallen into the (Property rights that are held by the public at large) public domain, and a number of them are available online from (Click link for more info and facts about Project Gutenberg) Project Gutenberg.
		Balzac is also a (The smallest administrative district of several European countries) commune in the (Click link for more info and facts about Charente) Charente département of France, and the name of a Japanese horror-punk band.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/honor%e9_de_balzac.htm (732 words)

	Balzac's Paris - A Guided Tour
		Honoré de Balzac is the first novelist to place Paris, the great capital city of his time, at the heart of his work.
		Balzac’s life (1799-1850) spanned a period of intense urban development, begun by Napoléon I and carried forward by King Louis-Philippe.
		We invite the viewer to compare descriptions of Paris in Balzac’s novels with contemporary documents—maps, engravings and other visual materials—located in the Vernon Duke Collection, some 800 books, maps and documents on the history of Paris, located in the Special Collections Department of the UC Riverside Library.
	www.balzacsparis.ucr.edu (534 words)

	Sprenger - Balzac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Balzac's "scientific" accomplishment, then, should be understood precisely as he characterizes it: it is a novel--a novel whose anthropological insight works to scandalize readers with its mimetic effects but at the same time offers the analytical tools to grasp (and therefore transcend) the causes of the scandal.
		Balzac, himself, in fact states quite clearly in the "Preface to the Mystical Book" that the trilogy of The Proscribed, Louis Lambert and Seraphita "offers the clear expression of the religious thought that, like a soul, is the foundation of this long work" (i.e., the Philosophical Studies).
		Balzac's sacrifice of Lambert is thus ultimately a kind of ironic self-sacrifice: he centers himself through a fictive surrogate, but then he de-centers this position via the narrator's (mock) violence; he marks this center with a "word" and then he un-marks it through erasure.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap0601/balzac.htm (6989 words)

	Dr. Anne Simpson's Author and Literature Links: Honore de Balzac
		Balzac's own interest in the theories of Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, Austrian physician Franz Mesmer, and others may be explained in part by this early influence.
		Balzac's first important novel was Les chouans (1829; The Chouans, 1899), based on civil war in the Vendée region of western France during the French Revolution (1789-1799).
		Balzac's scientific intention is evident in his use of the word studies to describe the three main groups of his works: “Analytic Studies,” “Philosophical Studies,” and “Studies of Manners.” Balzac extended the ideas of Lamarck and Saint-Hilaire to human character and behavior, which he believed were determined by environment and heredity.
	www.csupomona.edu /~absimpson/links/authors/b/balzach.html (951 words)

	Balzac, Honore de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Balzac’s first success, Les Chouans (1829, first published as Le Dernier Chouan), was followed by La Peau de chagrin (1831).
		In the next 20 years he produced the vast collection of novels and short stories called “La Comédie humaine.” This, his greatest work, is a reproduction of the French society of his time, picturing in precise detail more than 2,000 characters from every class and every profession.
		Outweighing Balzac’s faults—his lack of literary style, his moralizing, his tendency toward melodrama—are his originality, his great powers of observation, and his vivid imagination.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Balzac-H.html (418 words)

	Honore de Balzac - Biography and Works
		While Balzac also had ambitions for life in the theatre and politics, he is best known for ranking highly with fellow French realist Gustave Flaubert as a major contributor to the movement.
		Balzac's autobiographical and philosophical Louis Lambert (1832) was followed by his masterpieces Eugénie Grandet (1833) and La Recherche de l’absolu (1834, “The Research of the Absolute”).
		Honoré de Balzac died on 18 August, 1850, and lies buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
	www.online-literature.com /honore_de_balzac (1328 words)

	BALZAC'S COFFEE LIMITED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Named in honour of history's greatest coffee lover,French writer Honoré de Balzac, our mission is to provide fellow coffee lovers with the best of this sensational brew.
		Balzac's micro-roasts the finest selection of Arabica, Organic and Fair Trade coffee beans from all points of the globe.
		Balzac's portrait and other works of art in the cafe by Arelene Beft.
	www.balzacscoffee.com /about.asp (192 words)

	Encyclopedia: HonorÃ© de Balzac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		La peau de chagrin (1831) is a novel by Honore dé Balzac, whose title is often translated as The Wild-Asss Skin.
		Eugénie Grandet (1834) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin.
		Balzac is also a commune in the Charente département of France, and the name of a Japanese horror-punk band.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Honor%c3%a9-de-Balzac (1614 words)

	Amazon.com: Lost Illusions (Penguin Classics): Books: Honore de Balzac,Herbert J. Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"Balzac was both a greedy child and an indefatigable observer of a greedy age, at once a fantastic and a genius, yet possessing a simple core of common sense," noted V. Pritchett, one of his several biographers.
		Balzac's characters often reappear, in some form or another, over the course of his opus: principle to this volume are the roguish personalities of Rastignac and Vautrin/Jacque Collins, both of which are introduced in Pere Goirot.
		Balzac has built an entire society of his characters and as varied as they are, they are all also him and show the great diversity and depth of his personality and sensitivity.
	www.amazon.com /Illusions-Penguin-Classics-Honore-Balzac/dp/0140442510 (3155 words)

	balzac Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Written in 1846 at the height of Balzac's literary powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the wealthy relatives on whom she depends and whose condescension she bitterly resents.
		By 1819, when Balzac's novel opens, old Goriot is reduced to living in a mean forty-five franc room on the third floor, his fine cambric shirts and diamond pin long sold.
		It is well known that Balzac had two literary careers--the first, under a pseudonym, writing blood-and-thunder romance novels and the second, under his own name, as the creator of La Comedie Humaine, the vast chronicle of "contemporary life in all its complexity." But, in between these outpourings of fiction, he wrote a work of nonfiction--The...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/balzac (936 words)

	Honoré de Balzac - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He would become one of the creators of Realism in literature, though his work is still largely in the tradition of French Literary Romanticism.
		Balzac's work habits are legendarily intimidating - he wrote for up to 15 hours a day, fuelled by innumerable cups of fl coffee.
		Balzac is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Balzac (441 words)

	Balzac and the decadent provacateuse
		Balzac's archetype of the decadent provacateuse, using her beauty and feminine wiles to full commercial advantage, is an enduring one, as is shown by this image from the 1998 film adaptation of Balzac's classic novel, Cousin Bette,
		In sharp contrast to Hugo's archetype of the fallen woman, Balzac's decadent provacateuse is not forced by economic conditions to turn to prostitution, it is an active choice, brought on my greed and laziness.
		Perhaps the most primary of the characteristics of Balzac's decadent provocateuse is the clear distates with which she is treated by the author.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/courtesans/Balzac_archetype.html (334 words)

	Honore de Balzac
		His father, Bernard François Balzac, had risen to the middle class, and married the daughter of his Parisian superior, Anna-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier; she was 31 years his junior.
		Balzac spent the first four years of life in foster care, not so uncommon practice in France even in the 20th century.
		Balzac worked often in the château at Le Saché, near Tours, although a great part of his work was done in Paris.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.113 (892 words)

	Balzac - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850), French author, one of the world’s great novelists.
		Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de (1597?-1654), French letter-writer, essayist, and critic.
		Balzac’s principal contribution, seen mainly in his published...
	encarta.msn.com /Balzac.html (66 words)

	Honore de Balzac Author Bronze Bust
		Balzac was a French author obsessed with writing and food.
		Honore de Balzac was born in 1799 and died in August of 1850.
		Balzac's list of novels and novelettes are collected under the name La Comédie humaine, which originated from Dante´s The Divine Comedy.
	www.eleganza.com /busts-famous-people-gallery/2-03-honore-de-balzac-author-bb.html (429 words)

	Tantor Audio Books : Honore de Balzac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Balzac referred to his own huge production of novels and short stories as La Comédie humaine, which originated from Dante´s The Divine Comedy.
		By 1822 Balzac had produced several novels under different pseudonyms, but he was ignored as a writer.
		In 1833 Balzac conceived the idea of linking together his old novels to portray a comprehensive view of all aspects of society.
	www.tantor.com /AuthorDetail.asp?Author=Balzac_H&Affil=kirjasto.sci.fi (305 words)

	Honoré de Balzac
		Balzac ran a publishing company and he bought a printing house, which did not have much to print.
		Balzac got down to the work with great energy, but also found time to pile up huge debts and fail in hopeless financial operations."I am not deep," the author once said, "but very wide." Once he developed a plan to gain success in raising pineapples at his home at Ville d'Avray (Sevres).
		"Balzac himself always speaks of his characters as of natural phenomena, and when he wants to describe his artistic intentions, he never speaks of his psychology, but always of his sociology, of his natural history of society and of the function of the individual in the life of the social body.
	www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/380BLS/380Unit3/Lesson3MachineAge_files/BalzacBio.htm (2457 words)

	Honoré de Balzac
		His father, Bernard François Balzac, had risen to the middle class, and married the daughter of his Parisian superior, Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier; she was 31 years his junior.
		Balzac spent the first four years of life in foster care, not so uncommon practice in France even in the 20th century.
		In this social mosaic Balzac had recurrent characters, such as Eugène Rastignac, who came from an impoverished provincial family to Paris, mixed with the nobility, pursued wealth, had many mistresses, gambled, and was a successful politician.
	www.ciudadseva.com /textos/estudios/balzac/balzac05.htm (2190 words)

	Balzac - Biography - AOL Music
		Balzac is an exciting, ambitious horror-punk outfit originally from Osaka, Japan.
		Balzac also came to the attention of the Misfits themselves, who tapped them for their Japanese tour.
		They toured together in Japan again in 2000, and Balzac's fan base grew with the establishment of the "Fiendish Club." Balzac's first domestic release was 2003's Beyond the Darkness, which featured re-recordings of material from the band's first five Japan-only albums.
	music.aol.com /artist/balzac/534471/biography (216 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Honore De Balzac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame.
		"Balzac [was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand.
		Written in 1846 at the height of Balzac's powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the wealthy relatives on whom she depends and whose condescension she bitterly resents.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=6630 (387 words)

	Balzac en bas de casse et Picassos sans majuscule
		Those who have seen any of the three large lithographs of Balzac and found them wanting because of their unsaturated, faint fl line may be pleasantly surprised to behold these eight smaller lithographs.
		Despite their size, they pack a more powerful punch because of the fully saturated, deep fl line with which they were inked, not to mention their rich, yellow background, a not inconsequential bonus for all the color-starved Picasso lovers out there.
		Each portrait of Balzac is marvelous in and of itself, but the set when viewed as a whole is even more riveting than the sum of its parts.
	www.ledorfineart.com /Balzac719.html (883 words)

	Biographies: The Classical Fiction Writers: Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850).
		Said to be the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature.
		Balzac was a writer who was obliged to produce for a living, and, thus, he wrote many books (he wrote 92 novels); if you have room for two on your shelf, then, in addition to an anthology of his short stories, I would recomend Balzac's
		He [Balzac] believed in a constitutional monarchy and an aristocracy of the feudal type; aristocracy, he said, was the intellect of the social system.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Balzac.htm (251 words)

	voluptuous stoicism
		the day after her 33d birthday, amber resolved to read balzac's comédie humaine, consisting of over a hundred short stories and novels, many of which are no longer in print.
		there are two volumes of balzac in the city institute branch of the free library of philadelphia.
		voluptuous stoicism is a phrase from flaubert's madame bovary, and this journal used to be known as the balzac blog/comedie humaine.
	www.notsoswift.com /balzac (550 words)

	The Balzac Page
		The Balzac Page provides a Biographical Sketch, a Selected List of his works, and tells about the Project Gutenberg initiative to convert his work to etexts to preserve them and to widen their distribution.
		Balzac studied law to please his father, but after being licensed to practice, he decided to become a writer although he didn't know what he would write about.
		Balzac had begun in 1832 to correspond with a Polish countess, Eveline Hanska, who promised to marry him when her husband died.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/5516/gberg.html (476 words)

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