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Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux was born Lucie Frederica Marguerite Jourdain on 9 May 1850 in Louviers, into a prominent family of drapers. [1] Her father was Frédéric-Joseph Jourdain. [ 2 ] She was the half-sister of the painter Roger Joseph Jourdain .
During World War I, the Opéra de Paris director Jacques Rouché asked Colette, whom he met at one of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux's salons, to provide the text for a fairy ballet. Colette originally wrote the story under the title Divertissements pour ma fille. After Colette chose Ravel to set the text to music, a copy was sent to him in 1916 ...
La Reine Margot (English: Queen Margot) is a historical novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père.Although it is based on real characters and events, certain aspects of La Reine Margot may be inconsistent with the historical record; historians have attributed that to artistic licence and the fact that Dumas might have been influenced by propaganda against certain historical figures ...
Middle English: The Aventures of Alys in Wondyr Lond [13] Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll: Brian S. Lee: Evertype: 2013 Middle English: The litel prynce [1] Le petit prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Walter Sauer: Edition Tintenfaß: 2008 Old High German: Dher luzzilfuristo [1] Le petit prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Regine Froschauer ...
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At the beginning of the novel, Lol Stein (her middle initial is omitted in the English translation) is a woman in her thirties. She was born and raised in S Tahla in a bourgeois family and is engaged to Michael Richardson at 19. However, at a ball in the seaside resort of T Beach, Michael Richardson leaves Lol for Anne-Marie Stretter, an older ...
A translation through Chapter 25 of Book 1. Brunanburh. The Battle of Brunanburh is an Old English poem, found under year 937 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (cf. Wikisource, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Giles)). The poem records the battle of Brunanburh fought between Æthelstan's English army and a combined army of Scots, Vikings, and Britons ...
(publ. Pantheon Books, 1979) When Things of the Spirit Come First is Simone de Beauvoir's first work of fiction. [1] It consists of five short stories woven together in a way that is structurally similar to a more traditional novel. Beauvoir submitted this collection of interlinked stories to a publisher in 1937.