Honoré de Balzac grave

The grave of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac is marked by a tall pedestal supporting a bronze bust of the author. You can identify this monument by the writer’s intense gaze and sturdy features, which are framed by a wrought iron balustrade. Balzac, who chronicled French society through his massive sequence of works known as The Human Comedy, died in Paris in eighteen fifty at the age of fifty-one.