Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Honoré de Balzac across 5 places, from 1814 to 1832.
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Honoré de Balzac (more commonly; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1814year
Parisattested“(Meanwhile, his father had been writing a treatise on "the means of preventing thefts and murders, and of restoring the men who commit them to a useful role in society", in which he heaped disdain on prison as a form of crime prevention.…”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1816year
Collattested“In 1816 Balzac entered the Sorbonne, where he studied under three famous professors: François Guizot, who later became Prime Minister, was Professor of Modern History; Abel-François Villemain, a recent arrival from the Collège Charlemagn…”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1830 to 1837period
Château de Sachéattested“Balzac visited the Château de Saché in Touraine which was owned by his friend Jean de Margonne (who was also his mother's lover), between 1830 and 1837, and wrote many of his novels in the series La Comédie humaine there.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1830 to 1837period
Touraineattested“Balzac visited the Château de Saché in Touraine which was owned by his friend Jean de Margonne (who was also his mother's lover), between 1830 and 1837, and wrote many of his novels in the series La Comédie humaine there.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
February 1832month
Odessaattested“In February 1832 Balzac received an intriguing letter from Odessa—with no return address and signed simply "L'Étrangère" ("The Foreigner")—expressing sadness at the cynicism and atheism in La Peau de Chagrin and its negative portrayal of…”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
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April 1819month
Parismentioned“Instead, in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital—as English critic George Saintsbury describes it—"in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion, with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him", whi…”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1830year
Chinonmentioned“He called for "a young and vigorous man who belongs neither to the Directoire nor to the Empire, but who is 1830 incarnate...." He planned to be such a candidate, appealing especially to the higher classes in Chinon.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1832year
Vendômementioned“His time at Vendôme is reflected in Louis Lambert, his 1832 novel about a young boy studying at an Oratorian grammar school at Vendôme.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1843year
Sardiniamentioned“These dismal business efforts—and his misadventures in Sardinia—provided an appropriate milieu in which to set the two-volume Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions, 1843).”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
1843year
Saint Petersburgmentioned“A rival of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, Balzac visited Countess Hańska in Saint Petersburg in 1843 and won her heart.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
14 March 1850exact date
Volhynian Governoratementioned“On 14 March 1850, with Balzac's health in serious decline, they travelled by carriage from her family seat at Park in Volhynia to St.”source: Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac
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