abstract:Facino Cane is an 1836 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It first appeared in the Chronique de Paris on March 17, 1836Honoré de Balzac, The Works of Balzac: Modeste Mignon.