Word: passion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conception of life is that there is nothing worth living for but love. So he admires "Manon Lescaut" and " Don Juan." Love thus conceived is a sombre passion, a sacred...
...Musset's life all tended towards one great passion. De Musset was destined to suffer from this great passion, which was embodied in George Sand. Their relations are perfectly well known. De Musset was very unhappy; but after their separation de Musset was a great poet,- which he was not before...
...husband and father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...
...distinguish these two schools by the sensibility exhibited in them. Thus sensibility appears in French literature; at first it is called "sensible" and develops into the "comedies larmoyante" and into the idyll. Sensibility shows itself again in the correspondence of the time: the passion of love dominates the letters of Mlle. de Lespinasse; an abnormal and unsatisfied ambition in the letters of Madame Roland...
March 14.- Le Roman de passion. George Sand...