Word: figaro
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...Figaro remarked that the verdict was a "triumph of violence" and suggests that the jury became befuddled and committed an error because of the eloquent oratory addressed to them pro and con Royalism...
...little excitement was caused by the company's third evening performance. The cast of characters looked staid enough, but the rumor was strong that the soprano announced to sing the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro would be replaced by no one less than Mme. Ganna Walska, who has sat resplendently in a box at every performance. It is said she has become the proprietress of the company by way of using it as a vehicle for her greatly desired and delayed debut. But Mme. Walska did not sing. The explanation was given that she gracefully withdrew...
...Figaro, Paris daily, recently, with touching ignorance, published a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Madame B. on the subject of ephemeral flies...
...letter was published by Le Figaro in Paris, and is headed "From Dr. Franklin to a lady friend in France." It is a delightful and original satire on the futility of fame and the human lust for knowledge. Some excerpts...
...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...