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Balzacian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Honore de Balzac or his writings.





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"Balzacian" Quotes from Famous Books



... wisely blame Monsieur Buffon because there are snakes in his Natural History. Had you not impaled certain noxious human insects, you would have better pleased Mr. Ruskin; had you confined yourself to such performances, you would have been more dear to the Neo-Balzacian ...
— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang
... stood alone in the shadow of high, forbidding houses. All seemed strange and fearsome. Certainly this might still be called Paris, but it was not the Paris known to Englishmen; it was the Paris of Zola, and Zola in a Balzacian mood. ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Balzacian" :   Balzac


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