Balzac's La Comédie humaine
1842 · Work
Balzac gathers his novels into one interlocking panorama of French society, with some two thousand characters who reappear from book to book.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, France
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1842
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)