Honore de Balzac

by Victor Hugo

Overview

A speech delivered by Victor Hugo at the Funeral of Balzac, August 20, 1850.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014221290
Publisher:	Balster Publishing
Publication date:	04/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 KB

About the Author

"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books — from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame — have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18