# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/honore-de-balzac
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:58:27.382Z

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name: "Honoré de Balzac"
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description: "He built a literary architecture so vast it swallowed post-Napoleonic France whole: ninety-plus novels and stories interlocking into one panorama of human ambition, failure, and want. Henry James called him \"really the father of us all.\""
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1799, Balzac was a willful child who chafed at grammar school and later abandoned law after finding it inhuman and dull. He tried his hand at publishing, printing, business, criticism, politics — failed at each — then turned those defeats into fuel. La Comédie humaine, the sprawling novel sequence that became his magnum opus, reflected his own financial chaos and strained family ties, populated by multi-faceted characters so morally tangled even the minor ones felt fully human. He wrote Paris itself as a character. His keen eye and unfiltered realism shaped Zola, Dickens, Proust, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, James. Health problems dogged him through an intense writing schedule; he married Polish aristocrat Ewelina Hańska in 1850 after years of longing, then died in Paris six months later.