Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the mid-1840s, in a melancholy mood about the series of modernisations he was witnessing in Paris, Honoré de ...

Francky Knapp is a staff writer at Eater, and an award-winning writer with bylines in GQ, VICE, The Daily Beast, and other publications. A curious home cook with a deep love of Polish cabbage rolls, ...

For Honore de Balzac, a self-proclaimed defender of "throne and altar", to have had all his works placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by the Pope in 1864 and to have been praised by the ...

French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac captured the reading public’s imagination with the publication in 1832 of My Journey from Paris to Java, an imaginary travelog describing a journey to ...

It’s the French writer’s birthday, but if you don’t have time to devour all 91 titles in his magnum opus The Human Comedy, Ronald K. Fried picks three of the novels that speak to the current moment.

It is fitting that the namesake of the 58-room hotel loved coffee, because—though he may have taken his black—the palette of the space is almost exclusively varying shades of mocha: from latte to ...

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation FR. Why did Balzac create a stigmatising “type” for unmarried middle-aged women? It would seem that the ...

Balzac, the iconic wine bar and restaurant at 1716 N. Arlington Pl., has announced that it will be closing its doors after service on Wednesday, Nov. 22. Sadly, the closing is yet another among many, ...