item: #1 of 19
id: 12478
author: Strachey, Lytton
title: Books and Characters, French & English
date: None
words: 80386
flesch: 65
summary: The Prince de Conti, who, a month or two before, had written an ode in which he placed the author of _Oedipe_ side by side with the authors of _Le Cid_ and _ This decided the authorities, and accordingly on the night of the 17th of April, as we learn from the _Police Gazette_, 'le sieur Arrouët de Voltaire, fameux poète,' was arrested, and conducted 'par ordre du Roi' to the Bastille.
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item: #2 of 19
id: 1254
author: Rostand, Edmond
title: Cyrano de Bergerac
date: None
words: 35669
flesch: 93
summary: DE GUICHE (who has controlled himself--smiling): Have you read 'Don Quixote'? CYRANO: I have! CYRANO: Tilt I 'gainst those who change with every breeze? DE GUICHE: . .
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item: #3 of 19
id: 16245
author: Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
title: Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.
date: None
words: 74418
flesch: 56
summary: Some persons may perhaps be surprized at my comparing exile to death; but there have been great men, both in ancient and modern times, who have sunk under this punishment. It will be recollected that on being shown his tomb at Paris, he exclaimed, Great man!
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item: #4 of 19
id: 37635
author: Smith, George Barnett
title: Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
date: None
words: 64305
flesch: 65
summary: One of them is the volume of the _Contemplations_, paid for by public subscription when Victor Hugo was in exile, and presented to Madame Victor Hugo. M. Victor Hugo spent the night by the side of the mother and the corpse.'
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item: #5 of 19
id: 3901
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01
date: None
words: 17774
flesch: 55
summary: The habit of living in this peaceful manner soon united me tenderly to my cousin Bernard; my affection was more ardent than that I had felt for my brother, nor has time ever been able to efface it. I recall every circumstance of time, place, and persons; I see the maid or footman busy in the chamber, a swallow entering the window, a fly settling on my hand while repeating my lessons.
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item: #6 of 19
id: 3902
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02
date: None
words: 16922
flesch: 48
summary: The good bishop of Bernex, with less wit than Francis of Sales, resembled him in many particulars, and Madam de Warrens, whom he loved to call his daughter, and who was like Madam de Chantel in several respects, might have increased the resemblance by retiring like her from the world, had she not been disgusted with the idle trifling of a convent. At length I arrived at Annecy, and saw Madam de Warrens.
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item: #7 of 19
id: 3903
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03
date: None
words: 16570
flesch: 56
summary: Madam de Warrens inhabited an old house, but large enough to have a handsome spare apartment, which she made her drawing-room. The magnificence I had been accustomed to at Turin was not to be found at Madam de Warrens, but in lieu of it there was neatness, regularity, and a patriarchal abundance, which is seldom attached to pompous ostentation.
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item: #8 of 19
id: 3904
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04
date: None
words: 17078
flesch: 60
summary: Mademoiselle de G---- was a young lady of Berne, very amiable; who, having been sent from that country for some youthful folly, had imitated Madam de Warrens, at whose house I had sometimes seen her; but not having, like her, a pension, she had been fortunate in this attachment to Mademoiselle Galley, who had prevailed on her mother to engage her young friend as a companion, till she could be otherwise provided for. It must be owned, that in choosing the profession of music, I hit on that I was least calculated for; yet my voice was good and I copied neatly; but the fatigue of long works bewilders me so much, that I spend more time in altering and scratching out than in pricking down, and if I do not employ the strictest attention in comparing the several parts, they are sure to fail in the execution.
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item: #9 of 19
id: 3905
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05
date: None
words: 20622
flesch: 51
summary: Madam de Warrens herself was uneasy, agitated, wandering about the house and happily--finding the phial empty--guessed the rest. Madam de Warrens was fond of it merely for this purpose, seeking none but common plants to use in her medical preparations; thus botany, chemistry, and anatomy were confounded in my idea under the general denomination of medicine, and served to furnish me with pleasant sarcasms the whole day, which procured me, from time to time, a box on the ear, applied by Madam de Warrens.
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item: #10 of 19
id: 3906
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06
date: None
words: 19815
flesch: 51
summary: We endeavored to comfort each other for the pain of parting, by forming plans for our reunion; and it was concluded, that after staying five or six weeks at Montpelier (which would give Madam de Larnage time to prepare for my reception in such a manner as to prevent scandal) Not thoroughly satisfied in my own mind on the rectitude of this expedition, as I advanced towards the Bridge of St. Esprit (which was equally the road to Saint-Andiol and to Chambery) I began to reflect on Madam de Warrens, the remembrance of whose letters, though less frequent than those from Madam de Larnage, awakened in my heart a remorse that passion had stifled in the first part of my journey, but which became so lively on my return, that, setting just estimate on the love of pleasure, I found myself in such a situation of mind that I could listen wholly to the voice of reason.
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item: #11 of 19
id: 3907
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
date: None
words: 32522
flesch: 65
summary: I stayed, and M. de Montaigu set out on his journey, taking with him another secretary, one M. Follau, who had been recommended to him by the office of foreign affairs. Bollau perceiving he had to do with a madman, left him there, and M. de Montaigu having nobody with him, except a young abbe of the name of Binis, who wrote under the secretary, and was unfit to succeed him, had recourse to me.
keywords: account; ambassador; day; dupin; good; heart; house; love; m. de; madam; madam de; man; manner; means; mind; moment; montaigu; music; paris; person; place; respect; secretary; thought; time; venice; work
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item: #12 of 19
id: 3908
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08
date: None
words: 23362
flesch: 63
summary: I made Madam le Vasseur my secretary; I had lodged her with her daughter, and husband, nearer to myself; and she, to save me the expense of a servant, came every morning to make my fire, and to do such other little things as were necessary. I forgot all the wrongs he had done me, and at my return from Geneva, and after he had made the tour of France with Grimm and other friends to alleviate his affliction, I went to see him, and continued my visits until my departure for the Hermitage.
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item: #13 of 19
id: 3909
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
date: None
words: 37711
flesch: 65
summary: Upon her answering in the affirmative, Madam d'Epinay pressed her to give her the letters of Madam d'Houdetot, assuring her that she would reseal them in such a manner as it should never be known. Madam d'Epinay came and took us all three in her coach; her farmer carted away my little baggage, and I was put into possession the same day.
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item: #14 of 19
id: 3910
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10
date: None
words: 23724
flesch: 65
summary: She sent me young fat pullets from Mons, and her intention was to come and see me the year following had not a journey, upon which Madam de Luxembourg determined, prevented her. I answered politely and respectfully to Monsieur and Madam de Luxembourg, but I did not accept their offers, and my indisposition and timidity, with my embarrassment in speaking; making me tremble at the idea alone of appearing in an assembly of people of the court.
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item: #15 of 19
id: 3911
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11
date: None
words: 18915
flesch: 61
summary: Madam de Luxembourg, who thought as I did, would not usurp the authority of the mother; M. de Luxembourg, a man of mild and easy character, did not like to contradict her. The repeated afflictions which fell upon M. de Luxembourg still attached me to him the more, and consequently to Madam de Luxembourg; for they always seemed to me to be so sincerely united, that the sentiments in favor of the one necessarily extended to the other.
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item: #16 of 19
id: 3912
author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12
date: None
words: 29881
flesch: 60
summary: The time of communion approaching, I wrote to M. de Montmollin, the minister, to prove to him my desire of communicating, and declaring myself heartily united to the Protestant church; I also told him, in order to avoid disputing upon articles of faith, that I would not hearken to any particular explanation of the point of doctrine. After taking these steps I made myself easy, not doubting but M. de Montmollin would refuse to admit me without the preliminary discussion to which I refused to consent, and that in this manner everything would be at an end without any fault of mine.
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item: #17 of 19
id: 41914
author: Martin, Benjamin Ellis
title: The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2)
date: None
words: 69549
flesch: 68
summary: As _la Ville_ grew, its citizens gave all their thought to honest industry and to the honest struggle for personal and municipal rights, so that none was left for literature. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
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item: #18 of 19
id: 41949
author: Rostand, Edmond
title: Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
date: None
words: 39844
flesch: 91
summary: CHRISTIAN, CARBON OF HAUGHTY-HALL, LE BRET, THE CADETS, _later_ CYRANO. IV._ ROXANE _alone, two_ SISTERS _a moment_.
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item: #19 of 19
id: 42367
author: Martin, Charlotte M.
title: The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2)
date: None
words: 74734
flesch: 68
summary: (See George Sand) Dumas, Alexandre, II., arrival in Paris, 91; contemporaries of, 93 _et seq._; homes in Paris, 97-98, 101-103; birth of Dumas _fils_, 98; statue and description of, 104; scenes and characters of his novels, 105 _et seq._ Dunois, bastard of Louis d'Orléans, I., 35, 59 Dupanloup, Bishop, I., Renan's master in the Seminary of St. Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, 44 École des Beaux-Arts, II., 29 Encore un Tableau de Paris, Henrion's, I., 6 Erasmus, I., residence of, in the Collège Montaigu, 95 Estrées, Gabrielle d', II., scene of her sudden death, 249 Fontenelle, I., describes Corneille, 147 Force, La, I., prison of, 31, II., 138 Fouquet, I., protector of Lebrun, 43 François I., I., 1, 62, 65, II., _Maison de_, 159; II., 189 Franklin, Benjamin, I., residences in Paris and Passy, 214-215 Frémiet, I., bronze statue of Louis d'Orléans, 57 Fulbert, Canon, I., uncle of Héloise, 75, 77 Gambetta, Léon, I., at the Café Procope, 202 Gautier, Théophile, I., verses for Corneille's birthday fête, 141 Gobelins, I., factory of the, founded by a dyer named Gobelin, 41-44 Goujon, Jean, I., decorator of ancient fountain, 50; II., bust of, and specimens of his carving, 216-217 Gringoire, I., alluded to, 87 Guillotine, la, I., its inventor, 231; sites of, 231, 233 Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume, II., residence in the Scholars' Quarter, 5, 6 Halles, les, I., 48 Heine, Heinrich, II., his estimate of Hugo, 146 Héloise, I., 75, 77 Henley, W. E., I., quoted, 87 Henri II., I., 4; II., fatally wounded in the lists of the Tournelles, 193 Henri IV., I., 4. 24, 34, 68; II., statue of, 193; introduced mulberries and silkworms into France, 197; built up eastern side of the Place Royale at the crown's expense, 199 Hôtel de Ville, I., the new, 48; II., first public library of, 262 Hôtel-Dieu, I., 26 Hôtel, d'Artois (see Hôtel de Bourgogne) The vogue of the Marais began to fade away with the middle years of the eighteenth century, when the old _noblesse de famille_ adopted the Faubourg Saint-Germain, and the new _noblesse de finance_ migrated to the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and the gadding multitude sought the arcades of the Palais-Cardinal, renamed Palais-Royal.
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