Honoré de Balzac, after courting Mme. Hanska…
1850 CE
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.”