His style of writing is unique for its versatility, its exhaustive descriptions of French urban life and its social classes in quasi-ethnological detail and the distinctive tone of irony, cynicism and dark humour with which he chronicles post-Revolution France at the time when the aristocrats were losing out to the rising middle classes. Sculptor Auguste Rodin would sculpt a masterpiece with his monument and the film-makers of the French New Wave cited him as a Patron Saint. Henry James called Balzac one of his favorite authors and wrote of him extensively as a critic. His obscurity in the Anglophone Media is inverse to his omnipresence in France and his influence on writers and artists in variety of media. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is one of the greatest writers in French letters.
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