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Original file (2,980 × 4,096 pixels, file size: 5.62 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Marcel Duchamp, 1911-1912, Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train (Nu [esquisse], jeune homme triste dans un train) , oil on cardboard mounted on Masonite, 100 x 73 cm (39 3/8 × 28 3/4 in), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Voltaire at the residence of Frederick II in Potsdam, Prussia.Partial view of an engraving by Pierre Charles Baquoy, after N. A. Monsiau. "A few acres of snow" (in the original French, "quelques arpents [a] de neige", French pronunciation: [kɛlkə.z‿aʁpɑ̃dəˈnɛːʒ], with "vers le Canada") is one of several quotations from 18th-century writer French Voltaire, indicative of his sneering ...
"That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in the June 22, 1998 issue [1] of The New Yorker magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual. It focuses on a married woman in a car ride on vacation constantly repeating ...
17-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial philandering by quoting Oscar Wilde : "Sin is the only note of vivid colour that ...
A further, more recent interpretation by biographer Michel Antoine argues that the remark is usually taken out of its original context. He argues that in the year it was made, 1757, France experienced the assassination attempt on the King, and the crushing defeat of the French army by the Prussians at the Battle of Rossbach, while anticipating the arrival of Halley's Comet.
"Que c'est triste Venise" (literal English translation: "How Sad Venice Is") is a song written by Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour and Françoise Dorin [1] and sung by Aznavour about Venice.
Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as "Sad Tropics") is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. [1] It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil , though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India.