Balzac, Honore de. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Balzac, Honoré de

SYLLABICATION:	Bal·zac
PRONUNCIATION:	bôlzk, bl-, bäl-zäk
DATES:	1799–1850
	French writer and a founder of the realist school of fiction who portrayed the panorama of French society in a body of works known collectively as La Comédie Humaine.
OTHER FORMS:	Bal·zaci·an (-zk-n) —ADJECTIVE


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