Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SCHOLARLY CHIC: Couture clients can come from many walks of life, including academia. French literary critic, writer and professor ...

Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...

On A Summer with Pascal by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Catherine Porter. As the author notes at the beginning of this book, Pascal is deeply critical of Montaigne’s excessive concern with himself ...

French scholar Antoine Compagnon used to think the plane was the perfect place to read. But he recently discovered it may no longer be. “There used to be nothing else to do other than read (hard-copy ...

“Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have ensued: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard's "Collection Blanche"; the enlightened who read it in the first ...

Europa Editions has launched a non-fiction imprint, Europa Compass, with the first book coming from French author Antoine Compagnon in May. Europa Editions described the new imprint as featuring ...