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 ...

The contrast between the characters Lucien de Rubempré and Eugène de Rastignac makes this logic especially clear. Both enter ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Coffee! It is the great uniting force of my Daily Rituals book. It’s what brings together Beethoven and Proust, Glenn Gould and Francis Bacon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Gustav Mahler. This should hardly be ...

TORONTO, June 9, 2025 /CNW/ - Just in time for summer, Balzac's Coffee, a proudly 100% Canadian specialty coffee company, is launching a bold, limited-edition drink: the Canada's Cup Iced Maple Latte.