Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), the creator of the French realistic novel, was a keen observer of French human society in the post-Napoleonic time. His principal work La comédie humaine is a gigantic unfinished novel cycle, for which he had planned 137 volumes. (M 42676) _ _.
Discovered on 14-1-1994 in Tautenburg by Borngen, F.