La Comédie humaine - Volume 01
La Comédie humaine - Volume 01
By Honoré de Balzac
22 Nov, 2019
Brief Extract: Balzac was born in Tours on May 16, 1799, the feast day of Saint Honoré, whose name was given him, which sounded good and auspicious. Little Honore was not a child prodigy; he did not announce prematurely that he would do the human co
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Brief Extract: Balzac was born in Tours on May 16, 1799, the feast day of Saint Honoré, whose name was given him, which sounded good and auspicious. Little Honore was not a child prodigy; he did not announce prematurely that he would do the human comedy . He was a fresh, vermeil, well-behaved, playful man, with bright, gentle eyes, but nothing to distinguish him from the others, at least from unkind eyes. At the age of seven, at the end of an externship at Tours, he was placed in the college of Vendome, held by Oratorians, where he passed for a very mediocre pupil. Less