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Table of Contents:
Credits Introduction 1. Delphine Gay de Girardin, Princess of the Salons (1804-1855) 2. Eugene Sue, Master of the Serial Thriller (1804-1857) 3. Allan Kardec, Apostle of Spiritism (1804-1869) 4. Clemence Royer, Polymath Out of Season (1830-1902) 5. Juliette Adam, Egeria of the Republic (1836-1936) 6. Marquis de Mores, Adventurer in Four Worlds (1858-1896) 7. Diana Vaughan, Satanist and Saint (Leo Taxil, 1854-1907) 8. Ernest Constans, Political Buccaneer (1833-1913) 9. Theophile Steinlen, Artist for the Masses (1859-1923) 10. Charles Peguy, Ambiguous Icon (1873-1914) Postscript Acknowledgments

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Wright has assembled a motley crew, individually fascinating and linked to some extent by their originality. Some of them did in fact cross paths, and Wright was surely led in such cases from one to the other...They do illuminate human nature and the challenges posed by societal inertia; also the distortions imposed by a defensive society on dissenters and mavericks. [Notable or Notorious and My France] are two imaginative, intellectually rewarding books; and each is also what is called a good read...Both set one to thinking about the perversities, varieties, and ironies of history, and both will stimulate work by other scholars. Who can ask for more? -- David S. Landes Times Literary Supplement Gordon Wright's gallery of Parisian personalities, Notable or Notorious? is like a series of intimate dinner parties; in a very relaxed and enjoyable fashion the newcomer quickly becomes acquainted with such a variety of people and milieux...Wright sketches deftly with clear and simple lines converging on horizons, his prose displaying a singular lack of clutter...[the lives of ten] people involved in politics, literature, art, the occult, the Wild West, the First World War...Wright's elegant Parisian gallery...breathes life into these people who have been dim shadows around the corners of our minds. Now when we meet them again they will be familiar faces, surfacing amid a crowd of strangers, reassuring landmarks on the journey to understanding, bright ripples carrying light to the edges of the city. -- Rosemary Stoyle Literary Review Ranging from the Faubourg Saint-Germain of the Orleanist monarchy to the trenches of the Western Front, Gordon Wright's clutch of 'Brief Lives' offers the reader an impressionistic voyage across the nineteenth century by means of some of the period's more intriguing, though generally less celebrated, personalities. The ten subjects of these highly compressed biographical sketches represent the worlds of art, politics and letters, each apparently selected for the wider cultural insight they provide as well as for the inherent interest of their individual stories. -- Neil McWilliam French History


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  • ISBN-13: 9780674627437
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Height: 225 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 272 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0674627431
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 1991
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Gallery of Parisians
  • Width: 165 mm


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