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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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...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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...Before reaching this enclosure from the height of an emi- nence such as we Frenchmen rather conceitedly call a moun- tain, at the foot of which lies t... ..., whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost giv... ...ld turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continents, Frenchmen will find canons, steamboats, newspapers, and maps wrapped up in ... ... his eggs. The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courag... ...e be jealous of the late Mademoiselle Laguerre? Our modern Bourets have no French nobles now to show them how to live; they hire one opera-box among t... ...all and strong, and in every re- spect the type of woman whom painters and sculptors take, as the Republic did in former days, for their figures of Li... ...e apostles were made of, was of the type of Saint Peter; whom painters and sculptors have united in representing with the square brow of the people, t...

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...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t... ...nning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly on Champ... ...d these facts. When the war ravaged Champagne, he kept himself between the French army and Paris. After each lost battle he went among the workmen who... ... read the words: Quo me trahit fortuna. Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure th... ...the Mar- quis de Sallenauve, and let her know that one of the most skilful sculptors in Paris was ready to make her the statue of Saint-Ursula if she,... ...studio in company with several 208 The Deputy of Arcis young painters and sculptors when Benedetto came in ac- companied by a woman of rare beauty, w...

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...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ...hopman. He had read the names on the sign- board—Vidal & Porchon (it ran), French and foreign book- sellers’ agents. “Both gentlemen are engaged,” sai... ...said, addressing both partners. The booksellers nodded slightly. “I have a French historical romance after the style of Scott. It is called The Archer... ...id Lousteau as he came in. “Your countenance, worthy of the greatest Greek sculptors, has worked unutterable havoc behind the scenes. You are in luck ...

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...elt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or reading Racine, father and son, and explainin... ... Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will... ...e eau-de-cologne. The names of these places were shams, invented to please French- men who could not endure the things of their own country. A French ... ...at Macassar is really in the Indies. Now, isn’t it much better to supply a French prod- uct to the Indians than to send them back what they are suppos... ... beauty of this young girl was not the beauty of an English lady, nor of a French duchess, but the round and glowing beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesar... ...mmercial life lowered the stern and monumental character which paint- ers, sculptors, and clock-makers exaggerate. Of medium height, Pillerault was mo...

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...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha... ...of four-flushing about that. He likes to have people think he keeps up his French and Greek and Lord knows what all; and he’s always got an old Dago b... ...mon, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil. I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garlands. And 199 Si... ... impertinence! “But he didn’t mean to be. “His hands are firm. I wonder if sculptors don’t have thick hands, too? “Of course if there really is anythi... ... days when authors dreamed only of selling a hundred thousand volumes, and sculptors of being feted in big houses, and even the Uplifters like me had ...

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...he du Guaisnics. Old as the granite of Brittany, the Guaisnics are neither Frenchmen nor Gauls,—they are Bretons; or, to be more ex- act, they are Cel... ..., the literature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his... ...fection. He saw before his eyes the works of modern painters, those of the French school, to-day the heir of Italy, Spain, and Flanders, in which tale... ...hat charming Parisian raillery, that graceful satire which revealed to him French wit and the qualities of the French mind, and awak- ened in him a th... ...r a bru- nette. Besides, blondes are more womanly; we are too like men, we French brunettes—Well, well!” she cried, “pray don’t fall in love with Beat... ...d no longer a hidden grief; and secret sor- row is like that iron rod that sculptors put within the struc- ture of their clay,—it supports, it is a fo...

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...d have made it a point of duty, moreover, to sit endlessly to painters and sculptors, and preferably to the lat ter; because the cold decorum of the ... ...very day, with a flood tide of this delectable beverage!” “Why did not the Frenchman make punch of it at once?” asked Hollingsworth. “The jack tars wo... ...n. He has not persuaded himself—as Swedenborg did, and as any other than a Frenchman would, with a mission of like importance to communicate—that he s... ...nkee last,” observed he. “I know enough of shoemaker’s craft to tell that. French manufacture; and see what a high instep! and how evenly she trod in ...

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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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...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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...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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...alian artists of the sixteenth century who were indifferently painters and sculptors, sonneteers and engravers. At times when he saw how the young scu... ...om he lived in a certain intimacy. One of them was an American sculptor of French ex- traction, or remotely, perhaps, of Italian, for he rejoiced in t... ...made no difference in their friendship. The artist might have passed for a French- man. He was a great talker, and a very picturesque one; he was almo... ...ome back, he would recommend you to give it up. I am half Italian and half French, and, as a whole, a Yankee. What sort of a Greek should I make? I th... ... youth,” he said. “But you can’t keep it up—you can’t keep it up!” The two sculptors pursued their discussion after din- ner, in the drawing-room. Row... ... for several years, I heard vaguely of Mrs. Light as a wandering beauty at French and German watering-places. Once came a rumor that she was going to ... ...uppose, she speaks three or four lan- guages, and has read several hundred French novels. Chris- tina, I suspect, is very clever. When I saw her, I wa... ... doing a very foolish thing. That ‘s an exploit for spiders, not for young sculptors of promise.” Roderick wiped his forehead, looked back at the wall...

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...n fat, and heavy cheeks completed the characteristics of brute force which sculptors give to their caryatids. Minoret-Levrault was like those stat- ue... ...y that he took advantage of the events of 1806 to make himself once more a Frenchman. He settled in Ham- burg, where he married the daughter of a bour... ...ce before Joseph Mirouet reached the point of enlisting as a musician in a French regiment. In 1813 the surgeon- major of the regiment, by the merest ... ...he had the happiness of seeing this child of the fair German woman and the French singer a creature of vigorous health and pro- found sensibility. Wit... ...re, delighted in teaching Ursula to read and write. He taught her also the French language and all she needed to know of arithmetic. The doctor’s libr... ... the two antagonists met beneath a porte- cochere in the Rue Saint-Honore. Frenchmen have too many distractions of mind to hate each other long. In Pa...

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...ntury in which men and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of ... ...s a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement ... ...ency of the weather, gave an appear- ance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which ... ... of Madame Grandet, old Monsieur de la Bertelliere, as a lieutenant in the French guard, and the deceased Madame Gentillet in the guise of a shep- her... ...iment which purifies womanhood and gives it a distinc- tion unknown to the sculptors of antiquity. She had an enor- mous head, with the masculine yet ... ...Grandet. No one in Anjou heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily 84 Eugenie Grandet ...

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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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...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...