Stendhal

Stendhal

male, deceased (1842)
officer, The Charterhouse of Parma, La Chartreuse de Parme, Le Rouge et le noir, writer, novelist…balzac
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute...
Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

male, 60 years old
wine, film actor, French, actor, wein, Married and maiden names…balzac
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language p...

Benito Pérez Galdós

male, deceased (1920)
Literary realism, Spanish Realist literature, Marianela, balzac, realism, realistic
Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Considered by many second only to Cervantes in stature, Pérez Galdós was the greatest Span...
Yves Beauchemin

Yves Beauchemin

male, 68 years old
Quebec writer, Longueuil, Juliette Pormerleau, Prix France-Québec, Collège Garneau, Prix Jean Giono…balzac
Yves Beauchemin is a Quebec novelist. Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Beauchemin received his licence ès lettres in French literature and art h...
Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg

male, deceased (1772)
angel, trinity, Spirit, demon, faith alone, Christian…balzac
Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 - March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and...

José Maria Eça de Queiroz

male, deceased (1900)
de Queiroz, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Literary realism, flaubert, zola, roman catholic church…balzac
José Maria de Eça de Queirós or de Queiroz (November 25, 1845 - August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the...
Park Chan-Wook

Park Chan-Wook

male, 46 years old
kafka, Jecheon, the hollywood reporter, shakespeare, dostoevsky, balzac
Park Chan-wook (born August 23, 1963 in the Tanyan area of Jecheon) is a South Korean director and screenwriter. One of the most acclaimed and...

Frédérick Lemaître

male, deceased (1876)
louis philippe, burlesque, le havre, Playwright, French, kean…balzac
Frédérick Lemaitre was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaitre at Le Havre, Se...

David Bellos

male
Princeton University, Biographer, British, French-English translator, English, French literature…balzac
David Bellos is an English-born translator and biographer. Bellos currently teaches French literature at Princeton University in the United States....

José María de Pereda

male, deceased (1906)
Les Petites misères de la vie conjugale, De Tal palo tal astilla, spanish, Liberalism, gloria, balzac
José María de Pereda was one of the most distinguished of modern Spanish novelists. He was educated at the Institute Cántabro of Santander, whe...