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 ...

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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.

Who was Honore de Balzac? Born in May 1799, Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine.

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 ...

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 ...