#Balzac

[nobeerreviews]

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

-- Honoré de Balzac

(Portofino, Italy)

[lascitasdelashoras]

Pablo Picasso. Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu. 1924–31, published 1931. Honoré de Balzac.

[diana-andraste]

No man should marry until they have studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honoré de Balzac

Anatomy of a Pregnant Woman, Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, c. 1773

from Anatomie des parties de la génération de l’homme et de la femme

[saireyn]

"Asil ruhlarda acılarını dile getirmelerini engelleyen bir utanç duygusu vardır, sevgi dolu bir merhametle kederlerinin derinliğini sevdikleri kişilerden gizlerler." - Vadideki Zambak, Honore de Balzac

[oldbookist]

les mis fans: noooo guys you don’t understand victor hugo made enjolras and grantaire as gay as he possibly could….the classical allusions….he could have been ARRESTED if he made them gay���…please guys trust me you just couldn’t write openly gay characters in 19th century france!

honoré de balzac in 1835: Vautrin was gay. He was not interested in women. He Fucked Men

[usafphantom2]

18 October 1962. First free hovering flight of the Dassault Balzac V, French vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) testbed.

@ron_eisele via X

[wolfpee]

Eugénie Grandet, Balzac

[beluosus]

Things found in old books : My undated (early 20th cent.) copy of Balzac's Contes drolatiques has a drab cover, but has all the Doré illustrations (over 400) within. Inside was a shore-to-ship news cable dated December 1st, 1930. There's a short missive or diary entry about train travel on the back. Some of the news stories were more spectacular than others (vide supra).

[scrambledsignals]

"I needed to control my suffering through regular physical movement. It was my way of avoiding the depression that follows from a great expenditure of energy or peaks of exhilaration. The act of raising my arm at regular intervals lulled by thoughts and brought to my heart, where a storm raged, a peaceful ebb and flow that calmed my spirit. Each stitch responded to a secret, do you see?"

Mme de Mortsauf on tapestry as a relief from grief.

Honoré de Balzac (2024 translation by Peter Bush) 'The Lily in the Valley'

[ayvegecemiz]

Tanrım, dedi gözyaşlarını silip gözlerini göğe doğru kaldırarak, beni neden cezalandırıyorsunuz?

~Honoré de Balzac-Vadideki Zambak

[justesurlapeau]

[les-cris-des-fendues]

Ph. la bouquiniste

« Je lirai « Séraphita » pour te retrouver un peu dans ces pages de Balzac. Tout ce qui te rappelle, tout ce qui a quelque rapport avec toi, même lointain, m'est cher. »

Extrait d'une lettre de Renée Vivien à Natalie Clifford Barney - Londres - le 14 Mars 1900

[lascitasdelashoras]

Francois Truffaut - The 400 Blows by Matt Chinworth

[detournementsmineurs]

“Maison de Balzac” dans le quartier de Passy, Paris, octobre 2024.

[francepittoresque]

18 août 1850 : mort d’Honoré de Balzac ➽ http://bit.ly/Honore-Balzac Renonçant à 20 ans à la carrière de juriste que lui souhaite alors son père pour se consacrer à celle d’homme de lettres qu’il estime lui seoir davantage, Honoré de Balzac, quoique accablé de dettes sa vie durant après s’être lancé dans d’infructueuses affaires, devient un véritable géant du roman français en l’espace de vingt ans au cours desquels il met au jour plus de deux mille personnages formant sa « Comédie humaine »

[toutplacid]

Buste de Balzac par David d’Angers, sur son tombeau au cimetière du Père-Lachaise – encre de Chine (plume) avec retouche gouache blanche, carnet n° 140, 18 décembre 2023