...but there was something to be said about this little-known corner of dieselpunk, or "low-brow pop surrealism" as it was known back then. Like the French film scholars who codified Film Noir as a genre years after the movies were in the theaters, I could see a similar thread binding the dieselpunk work together. Whether they realized it or not, these artists were creat...

...eeth when it all headed south.” “Nah. It weren’t that.” “It was too. And everyone knows it. Bankers got greedy, they sold Louisiana back to the French and that’s why the Grand Dream of the United States of America is now just a footnote in history.” Mickey thought about this for some time before shaking his head. “Nah, that ain’t it. That don’t explain half the cr...

...2. Neutrosophy, a New Branch of Philosophy A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] mea... ...here confirm the rule! A minor poet, for example, who wrote in English or French or German is better known than a genius like Eminescu who wrote in ... ...e and better creation or work. (Applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, spiritualists.) My Syndrome: Is characterized by nose frequentl... ...am not able to do. I cannot for I can. Paradoxal sleep, from a French "Larousse" dictionary (1989), is a phase of the sleep when the drea... ..., Jean- Marie Benoist, Philippe Némo who represented the "New Philosophy" French group). The power of the monarch derives from his powerless pe... ... Marcel wrote "Les hommes contre l'humain", speaking on brain-washing (in French: le lavage du cerveau), and on tabula rasa. Mass-media partially do...

...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... I could not have survived in my vineyard at San Vittore: I need artists, sculptors, apprentices, courtiers, women, princes, jousting, masques, jewel... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...oint. Here, in the heart of France, when I am listening to Francesco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language f... .... At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards last night... I can’t speak French well enough to win. It’s lucky for me that everyone’s leaving here ...

...may be very hard to exclude people from Madame Bovary. Imagine a Napster for French literature; everyone could have Madame Bovary and only the first pu... ...birthday poem. It is one of the reasons that the central moral rights in the French droits d’auteur, or author’s rights, tradition resonate so strongl... ...art of the literary moral rights tradition to the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. In France before the Revolution, as in England before ... ...ance for us today as it did for the philosophers of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. He argued that any privilege given the author could no... ...ary Anglo-American copyright law. But when one looks at the his- tory of the French droits d’auteur tradition, it is striking how well those words des... ...t that painters in other countries sometimes received higher amounts, as did sculptors in our own country. In fact, he told you, all painters in our c...

... better creation or work. (This applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, and spiritualists.) (What we yearn for is real, thorough, perfe... ... long been ignored in China. FS: A friend from Holland reminded me of a French one: “il faut souffrir pour être beau” [one has to suffer in order ...

...oga and Secret Doctrines, second edn. BUDDHISM 41 Alexandra David-Néel, a French Buddhist, describes the practice of this yoga as she found it while ... ...hymn transcendently Him that transcends all. That is, negating, to do as sculptors do, drawing [from marble] the statue latent there, removing al... ...s before Christ to more worthy times after Christ, or, to believers in the French Enlightenment, time progressed toward grand goals and completions, f... ...recorded in writing. The white man might be a Jeffersonian believer in the French Enlightenment, or an earnest Christian cherishing the story of Chris...

...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas... ...e, straight, slim and slender, ivory-tinted statues, which those wonderful sculptors, the builders of cathedrals, placed here and there about the buil...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

...t the beginning; premising, in the first place, that Monsieur Guizot, when French Ambas- sador at London, waited upon Lord Palmerston with a request t... ... a request that the body of the Emperor Napoleon should be given up to the French nation, in order that it might find a final resting-place in French ... ...a that the corpse should be disinterred in due time, when the 7 Thackeray French expedition had arrived in search of it, and that every respect and a... ... few words (as in England, upon most points, is the laudable fashion), the French Chambers began to debate about the place in which they should bury t... ...w individuals in this great hot-headed, gallant, boasting, sublime, absurd French nation, who had taken a cool view of the dead Emperor’s character; i... ...planade thirty-two, mysterious boxes erected, wherein a couple of score of sculptors were at work night and day. In the middle of the Invalid Avenue, ...

...ng Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, novelists, and sc... ... that countless multitude.” Mackinnon looked down, and saw three groups of French soldiers, with three or four little men in each group; he saw, also,... ...t, as Mackinnon observed, there still stood the dirty friars and the small French soldiers; and there still toiled the slow priests, wending their ted...

...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it wa... ...onounced by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government ... ...hat only a few short years ago this province, so intimately 7 Henry James French, was under the heel of a foreign foe. To be inti- mately French was ... ...teness in the work, and a certain robustness of taste. In nothing were the sculptors of the Renaissance more fortunate than in being in advance of us ... ...hand of Paul Dubois, one of the most interesting of that new generation of sculptors who have revived in France an art of which our overdressed centur...

... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...un ever rose and set upon. Here, too, on certain afternoons of the week, a French military band flings out rich music over the poor old city, floating... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ...igar vender’s lantern flared in the blast that came through the archway; a French sentinel paced 108 The Marble Fawn to and fro before the portal; a ...

... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...un ever rose and set upon. Here, too, on certain afternoons of the week, a French military band flings out rich music over the poor old city, floating... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ...igar vender’s lantern flared in the blast that came through the archway; a French sentinel paced 108 The Marble Fawn to and fro before the portal; a ...

...esides which he had already dipped into 11 Balzac the conspiracies of the French “carbonari”; he had been ar- rested, and released for want of proof;... ...s round as a pumpkin, ruddy cheeks, and regular features of the type which sculptors of all lands adopt as a model for statues of Abundance, Law, Forc...

...lara Bell To Sofka “Have you observed, mademoiselle, that the painters and sculptors of the Middle Ages, when they placed two fig- ures in adoration, ... ...ns, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room—a capharnaum, as the French call such a domestic laboratory,—which was lighted by windows look- ...

...his was giving up honour, land, and plunder, and suspected the Queen, as a Frenchwoman, of truckling to the enemy. Jack Cade’s rising and the murder o... ...laughter, and the Queen had begged her to render her exclamation into good French for her benefit. “Madam,” she had exclaimed, “if a plain woman’s pla... ...s on a Border foray,” laughed the Dame of Dacre. “’Tis all a device of the Frenchwoman!” “Verily?” said the Earl, in an interrogative tone. “Ay, to ta... ... within the last century in the more fashion- able abbeys Latin of a sort, French “of the school of Stratford le Bowe,” and the like, were added. Thus... ...unt, the place of gloves.” “GANT for glove,” said Grisell. “How? You speak French. Then you may aid me in chaf- fering, and I will straight to the Fle... ...t Bruges was in a crisis of the fever of preparation to receive the bride. Sculptors, paint- ers, carvers were desperately at work at the Duke’s palac...

...mplicity of a decimal coinage which is revolting to the human mind; thus the French, in small affairs, reckon strictly by halfpence; and you have to s... ...my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we h... ... lost to the arts. Curious and not always edify- ing are the shifts that the French student uses to defend his lair; like the cuttlefish, he must some... ...o walk calmly into his favourite inns as if into a drawing-room at home, the French painter owned himself defenceless; he submitted or he fled. His Fr... ...an eye to nothing but defects. The Anglo-Saxon is essentially dishonest; the French is devoid by nature of the principle that we call “Fair Play .” Th... ...ut the odd and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plai...

... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...runelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining... ...he Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part of Alice. This little pantomime did not ... ...mmediately dried up. She looked like one of those meagre statues which the sculptors of the Middle Ages carved on monuments. “I cannot curse you,” sai... ...sins of Isis and her sister goddesses sheathed in marble folds by Egyptian sculptors. It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement. Saved ... ...You expected to find a gentleman, a leader of Art, the chief of all living sculptors.—But that is poetry, you see, a dream requiring fifty thousand fr... ...n, in which adverse criticism was contravened, and it was pointed out that sculptors altered their works in translating the plaster into marble, and t...

...hat object that he went every winter to Moscow. Nikolai Artemyevitch spoke French fairly, and passed for being a philosopher, because he was not a rak... ...f a good Parisian family, a kind- hearted and clever woman, had taught him French thor- oughly and had toiled and thought for him day and night. She w... ...er talk of nightingales and roses, youthful eyes and smiles.’ ‘Yes; and of French novels, and of feminine frills and fal- lals,’ Elena went on. ‘Fal-l... ...tate him, but it spurred him on to playing antics. ‘What a fidget you are, Frenchman!’ Bersenyev said twice to him. ‘Yes, I am French, half French,’ S... ...otes of invitation, written by Zoya, the first in Russian, the sec- ond in French; Anna Vassilyevna herself was busy over the dresses of the young lad... ... his art and is reckoned one of the most remarkable and promising of young sculptors. Severe 159 Turgenev tourists consider that he has not sufficien...

...at might happen to it thencefor- ward. Wielding that wonderful power which sculptors pos- sess over moist clay, however refractory it may show itself ... ...cutlery, books, chiefly little volumes of a religious Character, and a few French novels; toys, tinware, old iron, cloth, rosaries of beads, crucifixe... ...e as I can spare in studying yonder statue of Pope Julius the Third. Those sculptors of the Middle Age have fitter lessons for the professors of my ar... ...ss and courtesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam h... ...beheld, or fancied, expressed with the quaint, pow- erful simplicity which sculptors sometimes had five hundred years ago, a woman’s tenderness respon... ...d white cloaks, were sta- tioned at all the street corners. Detachments of French in- fantry stood by their stacked muskets in the Piazza del Popolo, ...

...e Pantechnicon near Belgrave Square, London, was observed (by a very small French sol dier; for I saw him look at it) to issue from the gate of the H... ...of good 6 Pictures from Italy humour who sat beside me in the person of a French Cou rier—best of servants and most beaming of men! Truth to say, he... ... this church, to see some painting which was being executed in fresco by a French artist and his pupil, I was led to observe more closely than I might... ...me times represent one of Goldoni’ s comedies, the staple of the Drama is French. Anything like nationality is dangerous to despotic gov ernments, a... ...thise with Napoleon, Heaven knows. There was no plot at all, except that a French officer, dis guised as an Englishman, came to propound a plan of es... ...ere, open to all comers, in their beautiful and calm retreats, the ancient Sculptors are immortal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, R...