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Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors (Flammarion) Journalist and art historian Armelle Baron showcases the work of famed Belgian antique dealer Axel Vervoordt through stunning interiors he created for 23 private homes...
...which has sold more than 80,000 copies since it was published in English for the first time 18 months ago at $20 a copy. The other is the mammoth Art of French Cooking (Golden; $17.50), the celebrated anthology of recipes by great French chefs published in France by Flammarion and known there simply as "Le Flammarion." It has bold recipes, going some distance toward explaining why all the outstanding chefs in history have been men. "Choke a fleshy young duckling to death," begins one, "and immediately pluck the feathers from the breast so the blood will rush...
...fool," he said. "I have thought about this thing with all the wisdom I have accumulated, and the more I think of it the more I am convinced of its truth. I have discussed it with scientists and writers; some of them I have convinced. My friend Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, was impressed with what I told...
...like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted to know. Ah, she would give her life for Science. He made her his secretary...
...went to serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...