"M. Taine, looking as usual for formulas and labels, says that the most complete description of Balzac is that he was a man of business—a man of business in debt."
— Hippolyte Taine

January 1, 1970

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Academics from FrancePhilosophers from FranceHistorians from FranceCriticsNon-fiction authors from France
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Henry James, in the essay Honoré de Balzac as reprinted in Literary Criticism Volume Two: French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson (Library of America, 1984)