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To give a great party is a dangerous thing. A few famous balls have been enshrined in history and golden legend-none more so than the Duchess of Richmond’s in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, remembered in the celebrated lines … Continue reading
gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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sarko for supper: the dinner game
Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dinner Games. Though in some respects Sarkozy does recall Louis de Funes and the comic posturing, the ideal context in which to place the French leader would be Francois Weber’s Le Diner des Cons. Sarkozy is … Continue reading
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Tagged carl theodor dreyer, Carla Bruni, Ernst Lubitsch, francis veber, french elections, ingrid pitt, Moliere, moliere the misanthrope, nikki six motley crue, nikki sixx, nikki sixx this is gonna hurt, Sarkozy, thierry L'hermitte, timothy carlson
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sun king soap opera in the gilded cage
By elevating the monarchy, Louis XIV hoped not only to increase its power but also to breed respect and awe, so that opposition to the royal will would savor of sacrilege, and be inhibited. To achieve this end, Louis XIV … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Duc de Saint-Simon, Francoise Marquise de Maintenon, Hyancinthe Rigaud, Jean Baptiste Racine, Jean Racine, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orleans, Louis XIV Sun King, Marie-Adelaide Duchesse de Bourgogne, Moliere, Prince d'Orleans, Rigaud Louis XIV, Voltaire
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”
Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Anna Clark, Beaumarchais, Chevalier d'Eon, Comte de Broglie, Debbie Foulkes, Denis Diderot, Edmund Burke, Evelyne Lever, Fernand Jousselin, Gary Kates, Havelock Ellis, Horace Walpole, Ian Herbert, James Boswell, Jean-Baptiste Lilly, Joel Richard Paul, John Coulthart, John Wilkes, Jonathan Conlin, Judith Mackrell, Lou Reed, madame de Pompadour, Marie Antionette, Mark Brownell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maurice Lever, Moliere, Octave Homberg, Paul Kuritz, Philip Core, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Reversal of Alliances, Robert Lepage, Russell Maliphant, Seven Years War, Simon Burrows, Tow Ubukata, Voltaire, William J. Thomas
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