Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napol?on Bonaparte in 1815
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
