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 ...

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.

No adequate biography of Honoré de Balzac has yet been written ; a fact somewhat strange, considering the interest and attractiveness of the subject and the abundance of the material available. Of ...

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 ...

Hotel Balzac—a sultry, modernist boutique with ties to that Balzac—brings a taste of the Champs Élysées's Golden Era back to the shopping promenade. It's rare that a hotel can stick to a palette of ...

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 ...

For Balzac’s to be among this country’s fastest-growing companies is ironic, to say the least. Founder and president Diana Olsen never wanted to build a sprawling coffee empire, with a Balzac’s on ...

Most people think originality comes from endless freedom. The role playing game Dungeons & Dragons suggests the opposite. It gives players a small number of races, classes and backgrounds and somehow ...