Word: bardac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dyed blonde hair and "steely eyes" named Gabrielle Dupont, who had lived with him and supported him for ten years. Gabrielle had once shot herself over Debussy's infidelity. She recovered, and the whole sequence was repeated seven years later when Debussy left Rosalie to marry wealthy Emma Bardac, mother of one of his pupils. Rosalie fired two bullets into herself, recovered and disappeared from Debussy's life. So did most of Debussy's friends. To Debussy, the scandal seemed in some mystic way to be payment for "some forgotten debt to life." In the years after...
...were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont, who lived with him while he worked on his opera, Pelleas et Melisande; Rosalie Texier (Wife No. 1), who had an unpleasant voice which finally got on his nerves; Emma Bardac (Wife No. 2), a singer with a pleasant voice who lived with him until his death...
| 1 |