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Vendôme
Loir-et-Cher
Centre

Rue Saint-Jacques
(Lycée Ronsard)

Honoré de Balzac

(Tours 1799 - Paris 1850)
French novelist and playwright
(Wikipedia)

Jeanne Massé
date?

Description

Bronze portrait medallion in the gate to the park.

Inscription(s)

Honoré BALZAC
ancien eleve
1807-1813

Signed: Jeanne Masse

Annotation

Honoré de Balzac went to school in the College des Oratoriens of Vendôme, the present Lycée Ronsard.

Sculptor

Jeanne Massé.

Locatie (N 47°47'36" - E 1°3'59") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce014; Photograph: 29 August 2011
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