Balzac's Lost Illusions
1837–1843 · Work
A provincial poet comes to Paris and is corrupted by journalism and publishing — Balzac's own favourite among his novels.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, France, Master
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 1843
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)