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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines French society across the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
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