Balzac’s tour de force, La Comédie Humaine, is a panorama of French history and society. His attempt to present a complete social history of France with scientific accuracy and in minute detail testifies to his prodigious literary energy. This program presents the prolific author’s life and places him in a larger historical context of Romanticism and the 19th century. In French. (14 minutes)

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