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sgilliamh: Bust of Balzac - Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert
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sgilliamh: Balzac - mask
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sgilliamh: Balzac - caricature by Benjamin Roubeau, 1840
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sgilliamh: 1877 Correspondance de H. de Balzac - frontispiece with portrait
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sgilliamh: Balzac - portrait
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sgilliamh: Balzac - medallion portrait by David d'Angers - 1843
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sgilliamh: Bust of Balzac
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sgilliamh: the many faces of Balzac - by a much later artist
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sgilliamh: head of Balzac, by Auguste Rodin
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sgilliamh: Picasso's drawing of Balzac
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sgilliamh: Balzac standing, in robe
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sgilliamh: Balzac standing - Jean Pierre Dantan, 1800-1869
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sgilliamh: Head of Balzac by Rodin - plaster
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sgilliamh: Illustration - which book?
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sgilliamh: Info label - Balzac's correspondence with Mme. Hanska
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sgilliamh: Mme. Béchet by Eugène Goyet
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sgilliamh: Zulma Carraud, Balzac's true friend
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sgilliamh: Laure Sallambier, Honoré's mother, in 1798
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sgilliamh: Laure de Balzac, Honoré's sister, later Mme. Surville
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sgilliamh: Balzac's cane of gold & turquoise, made by Lecointe in 1834
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sgilliamh: another cane with monkeys
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sgilliamh: Balzac writes about his cane, 1835
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sgilliamh: Balzac's mother at home
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sgilliamh: Mme. Eve Hanska, by Jean Gigoux
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sgilliamh: This might be Charles Furne, Balzac's publisher
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sgilliamh: Bernard-François Balzac, Honoré's father
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sgilliamh: This room would have been the salon - it was purple in Balzac's time too.
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sgilliamh: This would have been the dining room.
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sgilliamh: Balzac's workroom, opening onto the garden
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sgilliamh: This walnut table went with him to each place he lived.