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"The bar of a café is the parliament of the people."
- Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850), was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.