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University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material ...

Tucked into a quiet location just off Paris’ busiest shopping avenue, Hôtel Balzac is a bastion of 1930s-inspired luxury and quiet calm As a long-time and frequent visitor to Paris, I’ve become a ...

An immemorial theme of French literature, la montée à Paris—the ascent to Paris—doesn’t come off as an overly recommendable move. “It is always the same old story, year after year,” the grizzled ...

Francky Knapp is the commerce 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 ...

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 ...

If, from the pavement, Hôtel Balzac blends in with the Haussmannian architecture of the huitième, inside, its communal spaces and 58 rooms have been reimagined by Charlotte de Tonnac and Hugo Sauzay, ...

Auguste Rodin's "Study of a Dressing Gown for Balzac," plaster, 1897. AGENCE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DU MUSÉE RODIN/JÉRÔME MANOUKIAN It's a real investigation that the Musée Rodin is staging, in the exhibition ...

Despite split predictions of an extended winter across Canada, Balzac Billy says Alberta can expect an early spring this year. Drew Stremick has more from Balzac, Alta. She’s spent 3 years collecting ...

Balzac Billy, Alberta’s prairie groundhog, started as a 1978 radio gimmick and has since become a cherished mascot for Groundhog Day. Now a symbol of community spirit, his yearly predictions continue ...

Band Aid is back! To celebrate 40 years since 'the song that changed the world,' Sir Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and Trevor Horn announce Band Aid 40, which will bring together three decades of Do They Know ...