Guillaume Depardieu
Tepidly Paced ‘The Duchess of Langeais’ a Costume Drama Lacking the Dramatic
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 10, 2008 - 8:45pm.CHICAGO – Honoré de Balzac is a famous French writer from the post-Napoleonic age who focused on the societal mores with a sense of realism that hadn’t been seen in literature until that point. He reveled in the oblique moral ambiguity of the human condition.