Summary Balzac About
Honore de Balzac (Honoré de Balzac [? N?? ed? Bal? Zak], May 20, 1799, Tour – August 18, 1850, Paris) is a French writer. Has no relation to the French writer Jean-Louis Gues de Balzac (1597-1654). The name at birth is Honore Balzac; particle “de”, meaning belonging to the noble family, began to use around 1830.
His grandfather was a peasant named Balss (Balssa). Father Honoré added two letters to himself and became Balsak, and later bought himself a particle of “de”. Mother was the daughter of a Parisian merchant. Honore de Balzac was born in Tours, in the family of a peasant from Languedoc Bernard François de Balzac (1746-1829). Balzac’s father was a peasant who became rich on buying and selling confiscated noble land during the Revolution, and later became an assistant to the Mayor of Tours. He prepared his son for advocacy. In 1807-1813, Balzac studied at the Vendome College, in 1816-1819 – at the Paris School of Law, while working
Parents did little for their son. At Vendome College he was placed against his will. Meetings with relatives there were banned all year round, except for Christmas holidays. The first years of study he spent in the punishment cell. In the 4th grade Honore resigned himself, but filled the school desk with parodies of teachers.
At the age of 14, he fell seriously ill, and his parents took him home at the request of the college’s superiors. 5 years, Balzac was seriously ill, it was believed that there was no hope of recovery, but after the family moved to Paris in 1816, Onore recovered.
Since 1823, he published several novels under various pseudonyms in the spirit of “violent romanticism.” In 1825-1828 he was engaged in publishing activities, but failed.
In 1829 the first book signed by the name “Balzac” is published – the historical novel “Chouans” (Les Chouans). Subsequent works of Balzac: “Scenes of private life” (Scenes de la vie privée, 1830),
In the works created in the first five or six years of his writings, the most diverse areas of contemporary French life are depicted: the village, the province, Paris; various social groups: merchants, aristocracy, clergy; various social institutions: family, state, army. A huge number of artistic facts, which consisted in these books, required its systematization.
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