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When did Honoré de Balzac start making music?

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Honoré de Balzac's first song “The Magic Skin (Epilogue)” released on January 1, 1831.


Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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