Honore de Balzaca (Tours, 20 de mayo de 1799-Paris, 18 de agosto de 1850) fue un novelista frances representante de la llamada novela realista del siglo XIX."

Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus."