Word: evremond
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...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...
...Lately a contract rider for Sir Victor Sassoon, owner of Shanghai's ill-fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will...
...describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that at all times surrounded her are dexterously manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with M. de Saint-Evremond is made real and splendid, as is that curious moment when the old lady stretched a wrinkled hand to touch, like a godmother who bestows an inheritance of her magic, the small sticky paw of Voltaire, then a monkeyish brat. Ironical, Romantic...
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