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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.

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.

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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 ...