Honore de Balzac: 2013 edition of the Ecrivains collection, published annually since 1992 through which Montblanc honors the lives and works of the greatest icons in the history of literature. The 2013 edition pays tribute to Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, playwright, art critic, journalist and printer. Master of the French novel, he wrote 133 works that make up the Comédie Humaine, including Le Père Goriot, La Peau de Chagrin and Eugénie Grandet. Number 6921 out of 10000 copies. Cap in black resin, body in grey lacquered metal with black stripes, reminiscent of the striped Dandy pants of the period. The 3 rings, from the simplest on the body to the most sophisticated on the top of the cap, are a reference to the different classes of French society in the early 19th century (peasants, bourgeois and aristocrats). The clasp features turquoise lacquer inlays, a reference to the cane, made to measure, a lover of luxury and excess, of the shimmering and ostentatious. Balzac's signature is laser-engraved on the top of the cap. Equipped with a rhodium-plated 18-carat yellow gold nib, engraved with Balzac's initials, "H.B.", identical to those engraved on his coffee pot. The writer, born "Honoré Balzac", added the particle "de" throughout his life. Piston filling system. In its book case with its papers and over-box.