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...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...
...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...
Captain-elect Dave Watts, playing number three, took three close games from Tony Swales, 18-15, 15-11, 18-15, and Wis Wood at number five boat Peter Gautier-Smith, 17-16, 15-9, 15-10. The Crimson's Alty Flagg, playing alternate Ian Sherborne in the sixth spot, won in three...
Charles Livingston, a Bowdoin professor of French, has written a book in 13th century French called "Le Jongleur Gautier le Leu." He is presently in Macon, France supervising its production for the Press...