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Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist who, with Flaubert, is considered the founder of realism in European literature. His prolific production of novels and stories, collectively called the Human Comedy, served as a panorama of French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848). Honoré de Balzac was one of the pioneers of French literature in the nineteenth century in the period following the fall of Napoleon. He was a novelist, playwright, literary critic and art critic. ) Published between 1829 to 1852. He was born on May 20, 1799, and died in Paris, August 18, 1850. It was said that he was a literary work addict, which affected his health (he died at an early age at the age of 51), and in his life he meant from The debts that weighed on him because of the risky investments he ventured into, and he spent his life fleeing from his creditors in hiding and under fake names and in different houses, and Balzac lived with many women before he married in 1850 Countess "Hanska" whom he has been courting for more than seventeen years . Honoré de Balzac is one of the undisputed masters of the French novel directed by many genres: historical/political fiction, with Chouans, the philosophical novel with The Masterpiece Unknown, the fictional novel with the chagrin of the Beaux de la, the poetic novel with the lily of the valley. But his more famous realistic and psychological novels such as Grandet Goriot and Eugenie, which are a very important part of his work led to tort7, a simplistic classification of "realistic author" (8). Balzac's recent studies emphasize rather the romantic and poetic Balzac of his novels, including Lily of the Valley, a wonderful, even mystical inspiration, which permeates many of his novels and short stories, according to Jacques Martineau "who would not completely disappear from the human comedy of the chagrin of Po de la Bloc and From an atheist to Lambert Lewis" 9.10. Balzac has organized his work into a large-scale, The Human Comedy, whose title is a reference to Dante11 The Divine Comedy. His project is to explore the various social classes and the individuals within them. He intends to "compete with civil status" according to the formula he uses in the preface of the comics humaine12. His songs met in public collections: Studies in Literature, Analytical Studies and Philosophical Studies. He attaches great importance to philosophical studies for an understanding of both its œuvre13. No chagrin de Boe represented in his words “the cornerstone that research habits for philosophical studies and links by a band of almost oriental imagination where life itself is taken with desire, passion14 the principle of all.” Honoré de Balzac painted a broad picture of the society of his time creating examples such as Provincial and ambitious youth to conquer Paris Eugene Rastignac, sparing local tyrant Félix Grandet, father code: Jean-Joachim Goriot, and "Christ paternité15" or turn it into a police conviction: Vautrin. He is directly influenced by Gustave Flaubert's book as a sentimental education novel which is directly inspired by Lily of the Valley, Madame Bovary, and a woman of thirty years.16. This novel cycle la humaine comic and principle characters also appearing has influenced many writers of his century and the next, including Émile Zola, Cycle Rougon Macquart, and later, about which Proust17 Marcel Georges Kattawi wrote: "This is the famous 'monomaniac' that We review de Balzac, in fact, in a large fan of Proust 18.19.” The movement to reprint Balzac's works continues, including those he wrote in his youth.