List of La Comédie humaine characters  The following is a list of characters from "La Comédie humaine" a collection of 95 loosely connected novels satirically detailing the life and times of French society in the period after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), over the course of these novels, invents a plethora of unique and memorable characters. "Characters who appear in several titles but only significantly in one of them." Balzac created fictional coats of arms for many of the characters in the novels. They have later been illustrated and collected in the "Armorial de la Comédie Humaine" (1963).