Honoré de Balzac person

“Men of letters—notably Disraeli, Heine, Balzac—sought patronage from these new Medicis, only to caricature them in their work.…”

“Gundermann lacks the redeeming humanity of Balzac’s Nucingen, the other great literary creation James inspired.…”

“...some sort of elaborate fraud of the sort perpetrated by Balzac’s Nucingen.…”

“two of the best-documented cases were Heinrich Heine and Honoré de Balzac, both of whom became closely associated with James in the 1830s and 1840s…”

“The two first met at Aix in the summer of 1832.…”

“In a famous aside, Balzac described encountering Heine and James in the street one day in 1837…”

“In Vienna two years later, Balzac took advantage of this goodwill by borrowing 500 francs from Salomon against a bill d…”

“In 1842 Balzac offered James tickets for his disastrous play Les Ressources de Quinola... and two years later dedicated Un Homme d’affaires to “Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild / Conseil Général d’Autriche à Paris, Banquier.”…”

“More importantly, he provided Balzac with 150 shares in the new Northern railway line in 1846; having paid the first instalment, the writer promptly borrowed 17,000 francs from James, offering the shares as security.…”

“By the time he returned to Paris in the summer of 1850, normal service had been resumed…”

“In October 1848 Balzac—now ensconced in Wierzchownia—was appalled to hear from his mother that Rothschilds had refused to accept a draft for 2,500 francs drawn by one of his other bankers.…”

“on June 11, just two months before his death from a bewildering concatenation of ailments, Balzac was arranging with Rothschilds to invest in a hundred Banque de France shares.…”

“By the time he returned to Paris in the summer of 1850, normal service had been resumed: on June 11, just two months before his death from a bewildering concatenation of ailments, Balzac was arranging with Rothschilds to invest in a hundred…”

“It is also worth noting how much more sympathetically Nucingen is portrayed here, suggesting the influence of the growing friendship between Balzac and James.…”

“Even the sum of money which Hulot tries to borrow from Nucingen is similar to the amount Balzac borrowed from James in the same year La Cousine Bette was published.…”

“Another investor in the Nord was Balzac, though he had to pay for his 150 shares…”