Call Number:

C0386

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.4 linear feet

Language:

French

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Honoré de Balzac Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1832-1850 (inclusive)

Creator:

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Form:

Architectural drawings. and Correspondence -- 19th century

Abstract:

Consists mainly of photostats of correspondence between nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac and his mother, Madame Surville, and the editor Hippolyte Souverain.

Honoré de Balzac was a celebrated nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.

The collection consists mainly of photostats of correspondence between Balzac and his mother, Madame Surville, and the editor Hippolyte Souverain. In addition, there are miscellaneous passages from his books Physiologie du Mariage and L'Album Historique et Anecdote, and photostats of architectural plans and views of the Hotel de Balzac.