For example, Balzac's friend Hyacinthe de Latouche had knowledge of hanging wallpaper.

Poe may have also seen similar themes in Honoré de Balzac's " Le Grande Bretêche " ( Democratic Review, November 1843 ) or his friend George Lippard's The Quaker City ; or The Monks of Monk Hall ( 1845 ).

At least one scene involving Baron Hulot was likely based on an event in the life of Balzac's friend, the novelist Victor Hugo.

Balzac's friend George Sand was among the first to read the manuscript as it neared completion.

He had been visited that day by Victor Hugo, who later served as pallbearer and eulogist at Balzac's funeral.

He was an active journalist, showing in philosophy and literature the influence of Victor Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the original of Honoré de Balzac's character, Henri de Marsay.

Honoré ( so named after Saint Honoré of Amiens, who is commemorated on 16 May, four days before Balzac's birthday ) was actually the second child born to the Balzacs ; exactly one year previous, Louis-Daniel had been born, but he lived for only a month.

Although his mind was receiving nourishment, the same could not be said for Balzac's body.

Balzac's first project was a libretto for a comic opera called Le Corsaire, based on Lord Byron's The Corsair.

This was to be Balzac's life work and his greatest achievement.

Balzac's health was deteriorating by this point, making the completion of this pair of books a significant accomplishment.

Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 ), and changed the spelling of her name to " Bette " after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.

Although Balzac's La Vieille Fille ( The Old Maid ), 1836, was the first such work published in France, the roman-feuilleton gained prominence thanks mostly to his friends Eugène Sue and Alexandre Dumas, père.

This was a significant accomplishment owing to his bad health, but its length made Balzac's writing speed especially remarkable.

Another suggests that this effort was " almost the last straw which broke down Balzac's gigantic strength ".

If Balzac's goal was ( as he claimed ) to write a realist novel from his " own old pen " rather than mimic the style of Eugène Sue, history and literary criticism have declared him successful.

Others indicate that Balzac's interest in the theatre was an important reason for the inclusion of melodramatic elements.

Émile Zola said that Balzac's fiction was " uniquement le compte-rendu brutal de ce que l ' écrivain a observé " (" uniquely the brutal report of what the writer has observed ").

In Europe, he translated Balzac's Contes drôlatiques, which was published in 1874 by Chatto and Windus ; but it was considered too racy and was withdrawn, only to be reissued in 1903.

The novel's delayed publication was a result of Balzac's active social life.

* Literature: Nikolaus Lenau's Don Juan, Lord Byron (' My native land, good night ', ' Maid of Athens ', ' There was a sound of revelry ', Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ), Virgil-Ovid, Honoré de Balzac's A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hugh Reginald Haweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, Washington Irving, Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, Robert Burns, William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Jules Verne.

Other opera librettos include La rose de Terone ( 1840 ), Si j ' étais roi ( 1852 ), Le muletier de Tolède ( 1854 ) ( on which Michael Balfe's The Rose of Castille ( 1857 ) was based ), and À Clichy ( 1854 ) by Adolphe Adam, Massenet's early Don César de Bazan ( 1872 ) and Hervé's La nuit aux soufflets ( 1884 ) He prepared for the stage Balzac's posthumous comedy Mercadet ou le faiseur, presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in 1851.

Also Rodin was inspired by Delacroix's painting Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx, Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, Honoré de Balzac's book La Comedié Humaine, and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.

The Tipos trashumantes belongs to the year 1877, as does El Buey suelto, which was intended as a reply to the thesis of Balzac's work, Les Petites misères de la vie conjugale.

Balzac's " Sarrasine " was not paid much attention to prior to Roland Barthes ' blow-by-blow structuralist / post-structuralist analysis of the text in his book S / Z, published in 1970.

The centrality of a father in this novel matches Balzac's own position – not only as mentor to his troubled young secretary, Jules Sandeau, but also the fact that he had ( most likely ) fathered a child, Marie-Caroline, with his otherwise-married lover, Maria Du Fresnay.

Balzac's work habits are legendary – he did not work quickly, but toiled with an incredible focus and dedication.

After a series of economic setbacks, health problems, and prohibitions from the Tsar, the couple were finally able to wed. On 14 March 1850, with Balzac's health in serious decline, they drove from her estate in Wierzchownia ( village of Verkhivnia ) to a church in Berdyczów ( city of Berdychiv, today in Ukraine ) and were married.

Some critics consider Balzac's writing exemplary of naturalism – a more pessimistic and analytical form of realism, which seeks to explain human behavior as intrinsically linked with the environment.

" He wrote with admiration of Balzac's attempt to portray in writing " a beast with a hundred claws.

Still, Garbo signed a contract in 1948 for $ 200, 000 with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced Queen Christina, to shoot a picture based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.

In French literature, Honoré de Balzac's ambitious La Comédie humaine, a set of nearly 100 novels, novellas and short stories with some recurring characters, started to come together during the 1830s.

He introduces this notion in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls in love with him.

This is the case with Vautrin, the criminal mastermind who tutors young Eugene de Rastignac in Balzac's 1835 novel Le Père Goriot.

Balzac's trademark realism begins on the first page of the novel, wherein Crevel is described wearing a National Guard uniform, complete with the Légion d ' honneur.

Like Raphael de Valentin in Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin, Hulot is left with nothing but " vouloir ": desire, a force which is both essential for human existence and eventually apocalyptic.

Balzac's study of masculinity is limited to the insatiable lust of Hulot and the weak-willed inconstancy of Steinbock, with the occasional appearance of Victorin as a sturdy patriarch in his father's absence.

Critics like Alfred Nettement and Eugène Marron declared that Balzac's sympathy lay with Baron Hulot and Valérie Marneffe.

Steven Ungar compares Nausea with French novels of different periods, such as Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves ( 1678 ), Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot ( 1835 ), André Malraux's La Condition humaine ( 1933 ), and Annie Ernaux's Une femme ( 1988 ), all of which have scenes with men and women faced with choices and " provide literary expressions to concerns with personal identity that vary over time more in detail than in essence.

Cullen is associated with Balzac's Coffee, a chain of cafés in southern Ontario.

Balzac's first novel Les Chouans was inspired by this vogue and tells of the rural inhabitants of Brittany during the revolution with Cooper-like descriptions of their dress and manners.

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac's collected letters are credited with executing ( in French prose ) a reform paralleling Francois de Malherbe's in verse.