Word: chateaubriands
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...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...
...like to do with those that disagree with you, as la Maintenon & her Jesuit allies did when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found new industries & enrich foreign countries? Or the St. Bartholomew's Massacre? Would it not be better to read solely Lamartine, A. de Vigny & Chateaubriand, who gave the English such good ideas to think up for vilifying the Republic & Napoleon? . . . You admire Hitler whose intentions towards France are so evident he has caused Britain to drop her isolation ... & Mussolini who for ten years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism...
Potatoes Anglaise cucumber, filet Chateaubriand with truffles, mashed potatoes, spinach with poached egg, escalope of sweetbreads Bordelaise, fresh peas, and to wash it down, frozen claret punch...
...American Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity plans to construct a social center for American students in Paris. The building will be of a grandeur hitherto unexampled in its field, for the site is the Chateaubriand Estate and its architect will be taken from a present employment in Rheims Cathedral. Every feature of American luxury has representation, including the swimming pool and the ubiquitous cafeteria, in what is apparently a very thorough and a very sincere attempt to transplant the homeland with its virtues and its faults intact...