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George Sand may be described as an "idealist," if we add the words "with a remarkable gift for observation." Her great contemporary HONORé DE BALZAC is named a realist, but he was a realist haunted or attacked by phantasms and nightmares of romance. Born in 1799 at Tours, son of an advocate turned military commissariat-agent, Honoré de Balzac, afte