Word: chateaubriand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia University last week gave a Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for hemisphere service to Brazil's most potent publisher, small, dynamic, tack-sharp Dr. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand...
...satires, elegies." At 15 he carried off one of the French Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections of a poetic tragedy." (Victor thought it very dull.) At 18 Hugo was famous...
Victor Tixier was a young French doctor and amateur artist who wanted to see the country he had read of in Chateaubriand and Fenimore Cooper. Starting on a rather conventional Grand Tour, he quit it to spend the summer of 1840 among the Osage Indians: in Nion-Chou, the greatest of their villages; in their summer hunt for bison; in their skirmishes with the subtle, horse-stealing Pawnees. His book, published in France in 1844, is now published in English for the first time, with his few, expert Indian drawings and excellent notes. It has caught, between the doctor...