Date of birth: 20 May 1799
Date of death: 18 August 1850
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].)

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

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