Honoré de Balzac
You can read everything Balzac has written in his multi volume (12 volumes is some prints) La Comédie Humaine , the ambitious structure which Balzac built to include all his works and thousands of profiles from all walks of life. Balzac envisioned The Human Comedy to comprehend the whole of society of his time. The spectrum of this idea was so vast that Balzac worked days and nights to realize all that he had planned. This excessive work caused his demise. He literally worked himself to death.
Balzac, head, 18x14x20 cm., c. 1897, by Auguste Rodin
Musée Rodin, Paris
Balzac, bronze monument, 270x120x128 cm., 1898, by Auguste Rodin
Musée Rodin, Paris (There are many busts and sculptures of Balzac by Rodin. Balzac even posed nude for him.)
Great man's tomb in Père-Lachaise Cemetery
Père-Lachaise Cemetery
His home, La Maison de Balzac, which is now a museum.
Giant Balzac Statue, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris