Honore de Balzac Quotes


Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.


Citations

Balzac, Honoré de. Treatise on Elegant Living. Trans. Edouard de Pomiane. Cambridge: Wakefield Press, 2010.

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Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
  • Born: May 20, 1799
  • Died: August 18, 1850
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer, Critic, Journalist

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.