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1799 – 1850Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)Died 18 August 1850, aged 51Balzac was a French novelist whose vast cycle of interlinked novels and stories, La Comedie Humaine, chronicled French society after the fall of Napoleon. He is regarded as one of the founders of literary realism. Exhausted by decades of prolific writing, he died just months after marrying Ewelina Hanska.