Honore de Balzac was born on March 20, 1799 in Tours, France. His father named Bernard Francois Balzac, was a regional administrator, who married a daughter of his boss. The family moved to Paris in 1915. There Balzac went to Sorbonne, matriculated in jurisprudence, and became a clerk for an attorney.His efforts of publishing his early novels under a pseudonym and in his own publishing company failed. He was in debt. His activity as a journalist brought recognition among intellectuals for hi ...[Read Story]