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1597–1654 · French author, best known for his epistolary essays
Also known as: Жан-Луи Гез де Бальзак, 장루이 게즈 드 발자크, ジャン=ルイ・ゲ・ド・バルザック, 让-路易·盖·德·巴尔扎克, Бальзак Жан Луи Гюэз, Гез де Бальзак
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- Politics in select discourses of Monsieur Balzac. Which he call'd his Aristippus, or wise scholar (1709)
- Discours veritable des affaires presentes
- Epistolae selectae (1650) =
- Lettres choises du Sr. de Balzac
- Livre unique d'épîtres latines