Word: chateaubriand
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...started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean, it is said, repeated the slogan of General Petain and provoked rebellion...
...Chateaubriand garni...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...
...tomb of Chateaubriand, famed philosopher whose name is identical with that of the only passable French imitation of a beefsteak, is endangered by the wild Atlantic surges. His grave is on the cliffs facing the sea on the Island of Grand Bey, off St. Malo. Winter storms have cut under the cliff, and the tomb may have to be moved further back...
CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. V. De la part de la Bretagne et des influences dans la formation du genie de Chateaubriand," M. Le Braz, Sanders Theatre, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket only till 4.25; after that hour open to the public...