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Welcome to '''WikiProject Balzac''', dedicated to producing a comprehensive collection of well-written articles about [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850) and the 100+ works of [[La Comédie humaine]].

==Project goals==
# To organize all Balzac-related articles into a category entitled "Honoré de Balzac"
# To write comprehensive articles in keeping with the best examples of the Wikipedia content standards regarding each of the novels of Balzac, improving stubs or incomplete articles to well-written, academically verifiable, full-length articles on the novels and plays, films generated from these works, the author himself, his wife, and notable characters within his oeuvre.
# To write articles on each of his 100 novels and plays, listing characters, summarizing their plot, their impact on future authors and reference in later works.

==Participants==
* {{User|Vanished user azby388723i8jfjh32}} (founder ''in absentia'' as of Feb 2007)
* {{User|Scartol}} (serf turned usurper)
* {{User|John Carter}} (delusional maniac)
* {{User|Lesgles}}

==To-do list==
* '''Requested articles:''' Most of ''La Comédie''. See [[La Comédie Humaine|LCH page]] or footerbox at bottom of this page.
* '''Stubs:''' [[Le Contrat de mariage]] • [[Le Colonel Chabert]] • [[Eugénie Grandet]] • [[Le Lys dans la vallée]] • [[Illusions perdues]] • [[La Fille aux yeux d'or]] • [[Le Cousin Pons]]

==Notable Content==
[[image:Cscr-featured.svg|15px]] '''Featured Articles'''
*[[Honoré de Balzac]]
*''[[Le Père Goriot]]''
*''[[Louis Lambert (novel)|Louis Lambert]]''
*''[[La Peau de chagrin]]''
*''[[La Cousine Bette]]''
*''[[Z. Marcas]]''

<p style="margin-top:10px">[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] '''Good Articles'''
*''[[Les Chouans]]''

==Article guidelines==
===Naming===
In general, articles should be named in French. There is some disagreement on Wikipedia about whether to use French or English, but insofar as Balzac's works are usually described in French (''[[Le Père Goriot]]'' rather than ''Old Goriot''), this project has chosen French.

*English titles redirecting to original French titles: Variant titles of Balzac's works in English and alternative misspellings without diacritical or accent marks should serve as redirects to the original title of the novel.  For instance: [[Colonel Chabert]] should redirect to [[Le Colonel Chabert (novel)]].

===Article introduction===
Any article regarding a novel or play should start with this pro forma introduction:

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| '''''Le Colonel Chabert''''' (English: ''Colonel Chabert'') is an 1832 novel by [[French people|French]] author [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850) and included in the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' section of his novel sequence ''[[La Comédie humaine]]''.

| <nowiki>'''''Le Colonel Chabert''''' (English: ''Colonel Chabert'') is an 1832 novel by [[French people|French]] author [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850) and included in the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' section of his novel sequence ''[[La Comédie humaine]]''.</nowiki>
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===Body of articles===
* Background
* Plot summary
** NOTE: Do not use spoiler warning templates.
** NOTE: Keep summaries ''short''. See [[WP:SS]] for explanation and ''[[Les Chouans]]'' for an example.
* Style
* Themes
* References
* External links

NOTE: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels|WikiProject Novels]] offers [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Style_guidelines#Article_body|guidelines]] for components of article bodies.

===Links and categories===
Each article regarding a novel or play should have as its first external link the work at [[Project Gutenberg]]. A list can be found [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a251 here]. Another option is [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/humancomedy.html the archive] on the [[Carnegie Mellon University]] website.

Each article should be listed in the following categories:

* <nowiki>[[Category:Honoré de Balzac]]</nowiki>
* <nowiki>[[Category:Books of La Comédie Humaine]]</nowiki>

And each novel or play, respectively:
* <nowiki>[[Category:French novels]]</nowiki>
* <nowiki>[[Category:French plays]]</nowiki>

==Templates==
===Project banner===
The message box template {{tl|WikiProject Balzac}} is available to add to talk pages of Balzac-related articles and appears as:

{{WikiProject Balzac|category=no}}

===Userbox===
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The userbox {{tl|User WikiProject Balzac}} is available for use on participants' User pages and appears at right.
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===Navboxes===
The {{tl|BalzacFooter}} template below will be filled in as articles are created; it should be placed at the bottom of each article.

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