... looks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in foreign parts, a French revolution not excepted. What news! how much more important to kno... ...ome acquainted with them. I know a wood chopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to “keep... ...er cried up, unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all qua... ... me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he would s... ...native parish handsomely written in the snow by the highway, with the proper French accent, and knew that he had passed. I asked him if he ever wished... ...e purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bo...

...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...