Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night train several years later, his illegitimate son Alexandre III, already a famous dramatist in his own right (Camille), waited to take him to his home. Instead, Dumas père demanded to be taken at once to the home of his friend Author-Critic Théophile Gautier. "But, Papa, it's so late," said Dumas fils. "And you've been traveling eight days." But they went, roused Gautier and gossiped till 4. Finally they headed for home on foot, and Dumas pere never stopped talking. When they arrived at 6, Dumas pere immediately demanded a lamp...
...bill are Algernon Black-wood's A Physical Invasion and Theophile Gautier's Clarimonde. In the Blackwood story, a professional humorist takes a drug which he hopes will increase his sense of humor. It does, but it also invites a visit by a female "Intruder" who turns all his best jokes into "diabolical ideas of evil and tragedy...
...Gautier's classic Clarimonde (first published in 1888) could pass for an up-to-date case history of psychological spookery but for the fact that it is drenched with old-fashioned ideas. A young seminarist is bowed before the altar, taking his priestly vows, when he glimpses a green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell...
...French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set their music echoing through it; Flaubert and the younger Dumas produced puppet plays (music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them-and if Nohant's old walls could speak, many a French...
...romance-minded commentators of the i gth century found the lady less cheerful than beguiling. Theophile Gautier wrote that her "sinuous, serpentine mouth, turned up at the corners, in the violet shadows, mocks you with so much gentleness, grace and superiority, that you feel suddenly intimidated, like a schoolboy before a duchess...