Balzac

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Film_Director
gptkbp:adaptation Film adaptations
Stage adaptations
Television adaptations
gptkbp:artMovement Realism
Naturalism
gptkbp:associatedWith Romanticism
Realist_literature
gptkbp:birthDate May 20, 1799
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Tours,_France
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
gptkbp:children gptkb:Eugène_Balzac
gptkbp:contributedTo Literature
gptkbp:deathDate August 18, 1850
gptkbp:diedIn gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:famousFor Literary realism
Social commentary
Character development
gptkbp:famousQuote "There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower."
"A man of great wealth is a man of great power."
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
"The more one loves, the more one suffers."
"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done."
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Honoré_de_Balzac
gptkbp:genre Realism
Social criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Balzac
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Gustave_Flaubert
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Émile_Zola
Leo Tolstoy
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Walter_Scott
gptkb:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
gptkbp:influenceOn Artists
Writers
Film directors
gptkbp:inspiration Modern literature
French_literature
gptkbp:knownFor Complex characters
Interconnected stories
Detailed descriptions
gptkbp:language French
gptkbp:nationality French
gptkbp:notableFeature Legion of Honor
Honorary_member_of_the_Académie_française
gptkbp:notableWork Eugénie Grandet
Lost Illusions
The Human Comedy
gptkbp:occupation writer
gptkbp:spouse Eve Hanska