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...spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round...
...They included the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, the portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus, the bulbous-nosed Self Portrait showing the artist at 54. The exhibition proved again that Rembrandt was far and away the greatest of those few painters in history who have rivaled writers like Balzac and Dostoevski in their ability to delineate the individual human soul...
Homer would have liked to work on the Tribune. . . . So would Horace. . . . So would Balzac, Addison, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, Hardy, Kipling and Mark Twain-The W.G.N., a handbook on the 75th anniversary (1922) of the Chicago Tribune...
Long-distance autopsies are risky. French Scholar Denis Saurat enraged the high-minded by "demonstrating" that blind John Milton (like deaf Ludwig van Beethoven) suffered from hereditary syphilis. Diagnostician Moorman finds Milton tuberculous. Other famous consumptives: Pope, Dr. Johnson, Shelley, Goethe, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Chekhov, Dostoevski, a brow-wrinkling list of other writers and thinkers. Doctors suspect that tuberculosis develops genius because 1) apprehension of death inspires a burning awareness of life's beauty, significance, transience, 2) the bacillus breeds restlessness and an intoxicated hypersensitiveness...