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
Joseph Nathaniel French Woodward Avenue, Berkley, Michigan. Joseph Nathaniel French Joseph Nathaniel French, Sr. (October 24, 1888 – February 28, 1975) was an architect with Albert Kahn Associates from 1914 to 1967. He was the chief architect for the Fisher Building in Detroit, Michigan. He was born on October 24, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Brown Morse French (1854–1928) and Erlenia Helen Matilda Faulkner (1857–1939). He had four sisters: Frances Gertrude French (1877–1878) who died of cholera, Emma Matilda French (1879–1884), Nettie Eveline French (1886–1896) and Marion Ruth French (1897–1982). French attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and graduated in 1911. He