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Balzac, Honre de
(1799-1850) French writer. Along with many short stories, plays, and essays, Honre de Balzac wrote "La comédie humaine" (1842-1848); translated as "The Human Comedy," 1895-1900), a cycle of about 90 novels describing French society in detail.
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The Country Doctor - Honre de Balzac (1799-1850)
Read "The Country Doctor," by Honre de Balzac. "On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse."