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...Poor Henri Beyle! He had no looks, no money, no social status, not even a good job. All he had was genius. But at 18, Henri Beyle was the only one who knew it, and not even he could be sure. He had just left his native Grenoble on what was to become a lifelong journey devoted to la chasse au bonheur-the pursuit of happiness-and the first stop was Milan, where young Beyle served as a sublieutenant in Napoleon's army of occupation. Ambitious, hot-blooded Henri knew exactly what he wanted to be: "the successor...
...knack for rhymed comedy and little gift for seduction, but that did not stop him from trying. To drive himself on, he noted tactical maneuvers with military precision, e.g., the sneak attack camouflaged by an embrace verging on strangulation, accompanied by the lover's deceptively shy whimpering (noted Henri: "If you go about the business calmly, you can't fail"). He also jotted down guiding principles: "Heroes have intervals of fear, poltroons moments of bravery, and virtuous women moments of weakness." But the weak moments came when Henri was not about and his amorous success consisted in courting...
Analyst v. Butterfly. This extraordinary diary is Henri Beyle's completely candid dialogue with himself between 1801 and 1814, from the age of 18 to 31. Diarist Beyle permitted himself no second thoughts, following his own basic rule "not to stand on ceremony and never to erase." He put it down simply, quickly, directly, without ornamentation, racing on the wing of the event, often dashing off notations in telegraphic French and dotting it with unlikely Italian and improbable English ("She did can well perform and not be applaused"). Diarist Beyle's spontaneous self-communion is raw, inchoate, crackling...
...Henri Matisse died last week, and the most brilliant fountain of light and color in modern art was sealed...
...Died. Henri Matisse, 84, modern art's greatest colorist; of a heart attack; in Nice...