Biography on Honore De Balzac

Biography on Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac was born at Tours in 1799. He was the son of a civil servant He was one of eleven children He spent six years as a boarder at a Vendome school. He had trouble adapting himself to the rote style of learning, as a result he was frequently put un the “alcove” or a punishment cell reserved for disobedient students.

Aftertime Balzac felt ill causing im to be in a coma. When he returned home him and his family moved to Paris and him and his brothers where sent to private tutors and schools for the next two and a half years. He attempted suicide on a bridge over the Louire River because he was unhappy. In 1816 he entered the Sorbonne where he studied with three famous professors. His parents hoped that he would become a lawyer. He then tried to start his own business where he did publishing printing and type founding. Unfortunately his business didn’t have anything to print.

At the age of thirty he felt heavily in debt because of the failure in his printing company. He returned to literature with a dedicated fury he said, “I had many period of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusion, I pull through them all.” He wrote his first novel that appeared under his own name, The Chouans. In 1833 Balzac had and idea to put all of his old novels together so they would comprehend the whole society in a series of books. These plans actually lead to 90 novel and novellas, which