balzac has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)

Used in print

(R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)

Now , although the roots of the mystery_story in serious literature go_back as far as Balzac , Dickens , and Poe , it was not until the closing decades of the 19_th century that the private_detective became an established figure in popular fiction .

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novelist

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