Ewelina Hańska Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac
Eveline Herfkens poverty reduction worldwide, by sreamlining their own aid delivery systems and by influencing the international community's policies to combat poverty. Her work as Minister and member of the "Utstein Group"has received wide international acclaim, including, in 2003, through the award of the first annual "Commitment to Development Award" by the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C. Recently, the OECD acknowledged that the "Utstein Group" of which she was a member contributed to international development receiving attention beyond the "development community" and making the MDG's the dominant framework for discussing development. On 1 October 2002, Eveline Herfkens was appointed by