Question: Eugène de Rastignac is a fictional character from a series of novels by a novelist born in which year ?
Context: Virginie Pivert de Senancour (Agathe-Eulalie-Ursule Pivert de) (1791–1876), the daughter of essayist Étienne Pivert de Senancour, was a French novelist and journalist.  She served as her father's secretary and also wrote stories for children.  Her work "La Conquêtomanie" is a satire against Napoleon.  In "Réplique à un mal avisé" she responds to certain attacks levelled against her father by Eugène de Mirecourt.  Nearly all the biographical information that exists about her father originates from her.  One such biographical episode involves the novelist George Sand, who was influenced by Obermann.  Eulalie writes that Sand, who tended to be tongue-tied with people she didn't know, sat facing the 63-year-old Senancour for 10 minutes without uttering a word before getting up and silently leaving the room. François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas was a French naval officer, born in 1810 in the Saussay.  He was the son of Auguste de Barlatier de Mas 1781-1836 and Sophie Joséphine Archdeacon 1785-1857, and grandson of the Famous Captain Paul François Ignace de Barlatier de Mas who fought in the American War of Independence against the English and was awarded a permanent seat in the General Society of the Cincinnati.  He married Thérèse Armandine Santerre, great-niece of General Antoine Joseph Santerre, and had three children, Sophie de Barlatier de Mas Peghoux 1842-1918, Armand Auguste de Barlatier de Mas 1845-1894 and Jacques Edmond de Barlatier de Mas 1851-1857. Achille Fontanelli (8 November 1775 – 22 July 1838) was an Italian nationalist and Napoleonic general.  Born into a low-ranking noble family, he took service with a pro-French Italian military unit in 1797.  He was captured in 1799 but was repatriated in time to serve in the Marengo Campaign in 1800.  He was promoted to general officer in 1804 and in the 1809 war he led an Italian division in several major battles.  After serving as Minister of War to Eugène de Beauharnais, he was tapped to command a division in the 1813 campaign.  After the collapse of Napoleon's empire in 1814, he took service with the Austrian Empire. Eugène de Pousargues (21 October 1859 – 24 January 1901) was a French zoologist born in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais). Le Père Goriot (] , "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the "Scènes de la vie privée" section of his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine".  Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. Count Aymar Eugène de la Baume Pluvinel (6 November 1860 – 18 July 1938) was a French astronomer and professor in the "Grandes écoles SupOptique" ("École supérieure d'optique").  He belonged to an old noble family, whose main character was Antoine de Pluvinel, King Louis XIII's master of equitation. Saint Eugène de Mazenod (born Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod; 1 August 1782 – 21 May 1861), more commonly known as Eugène de Mazenod, was a French Catholic clergyman, beatified on 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI, and canonized on 3 December 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Honoré de Balzac ( ; ] , born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.  The novel sequence "La Comédie Humaine", which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his "magnum opus". Eugène de Rastignac ] is a fictional character from "La Comédie humaine", a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac.  He appears as a main character in "Le Père Goriot" (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series. Nicolas de Leuchtenberg ("Nicolas Alexander Fritz"; born 12 October 1933, Munich) is a claimant to the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg.  He is the son of Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg and his wife Élisabeth Müller-Himmler, and is thus a direct descendent of Alexandre de Beauharnais, Joséphine de Beauharnais, and of Eugène de Beauharnais, first Duke of Leuchtenberg.
Answer: 1799