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...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...

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...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...

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...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, ...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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...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...

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...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- ...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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, ...

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...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...

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... Menage, St. Evremonde, de Malherbe, and others, who first cleaned out the French language, sent foreign words to the rightabout, and gave the right o... ... When the above mentioned captain came in his turn into the chamber of the French king, he asked him respectfully if it was his good pleasure to permi... ...eat advantage of the Castilian imagination over the simple movement of the French. T o which the Marchesa of Amaesguy consented for the honour of Spai... ...ill was a sneeze, or a case of vio- lence; in short, that the embrace of a French woman brought back the drinker more thirsty than ever, tiring him ne... ...o my own style, because I have been compelled to turn them from Latin into French. I commence:—At Poissy the nuns were accustomed to, when Mademoisell... ...decorate the castle of Amboise, they came with him certain workmen, master sculptors, good painters, and masons, or architects, who ornamented the gal...

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... maid taught them drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was ... ...rrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at that particular period was endeavoring to defend itsel... ...she turned her head, superb folds formed about her neck, the admiration of sculptors. She car- ried on this triumphant neck the small head of a Roman ...

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...w servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are a Frenchman, I believe,” asked Phileas Fogg, “and your name is John?” “Jean, ... ... younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva’s tr... ... is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would... ...er reading the passport. “I am.” “And this man is your servant?” “He is: a Frenchman, named Passepartout.” “You are from London?” “Yes.” “And you are ... ... “The servant seems to me less mysterious than the master; besides, he’s a Frenchman, and can’t help talking. Excuse me for a little while, consul.” ... ...rom the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta. The passengers o...

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...bring out as soon as possible les Marguerites, those divine sonnets by the French Petrarch! We must carry our friend through on the shield of stamped ... ...ed the figures of Flora and Zephyr as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but they were be- yond sculpture, the greatest of the arts; Luci... ...ing to see the priest making this girl repeat Ave Maria and Paternoster in French. “That is very fine!” said Esther, when she had repeated these two g... ...was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu met with opposition from the great nobles, and h... ...gh to avert annoyance, but significant of such deep contempt as killed all French geniality. He thus had very soon got rid of 60 Scenes from a Courte... ...ht dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are conspicu... ... the miraculous energy he displayed in aiding Fouche in the defence of the French coast when threatened by what was known at the time as the W alchere...

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...s in displacing or smoothing stones which are the wonder of architects and sculptors. It was eight o’clock. At that season twilight was still shed- di... ...ainted as an ideal head of Germany. Wallenrod invested enough money in the French funds to give his daughter thirty thou- sand francs a year, and sett... ...her with his cottons, a pretty little wife, attracted it would seem by his French nature. Miss Grummer was worth about four thousand dollars (twenty t... ...the use of two languages, she could speak and read German quite as well as French; she had also, together with her sister, learned English from Ma- da... ...ste fed her soul on the modern masterpieces of three literatures, English, French, and German. Lord Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Walter Scott, Hugo, Lamar... ...t gratifies the vanity, —that pow- erful auxiliary to all action among the French. Out of this third period of the development of her ideas, there cam...

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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ... the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the... ...ations. She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York—the surprise would follow; the sur... ...gists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, dema...