Eugène de Rastignac is a fictional character from a series of novels by a novelist born in which year ?
Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( ; ] , born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence "La Comédie Humaine", which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his "magnum opus".
Henriette Guizot de Witt Henriette Guizot de Witt (1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris), the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as "Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse" (1876), "Scènes historiques" (five series, 1875-85), "Les chroniques de l'histoire de France jusqu'au XIVe siècle" (4 volumes 1882-85). She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.