The Works of Honoré de Balzac V. XIV (1901)

by Honoré de Balzac

V. 14- The rise and fall of César Birotteau ; The middle classes. The Original Books Collection. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon