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People: Joachim von Ribbentrop
Topic: Interregnum, Lombard, or Rule of the Dukes

Honoré de Balzac, after courting Mme. Hanska …

Years: 1850 - 1850

Honoré de Balzac, after courting Mme. Hanska for eighteen years, marries her on March 2, 1850.

Less than six months later, he is dead at the age of fifty-one, worn out from his three coffee-fueled decades as what he called “a galley slave of the pen.”