Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Moliere, said he, was in the XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world...
...Brunetiere,said Mr. de Sumichrast, will be the first member of the French Academy to speak at this University. He is a typical Frenchman and one of the best type; he will give us a truer idea of the French and their literature than we can ever derive from paper-covered novels and sensational plays. He is a self-made man, in the best sense of the expression-one who, starting without wealth or rank, has made himself an authority by sheer energy, patience and labor...
...junior debate in Whig and was one of Whig's representatives in the public junior oratorical contest at commencement. In the fall of '95 he won first in the annual French medal debate, the prize for which is a large gold medal, the gift of the distinguished young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He has a remarkable command of language and a very rapid delivery...
TUTORING in French by at native Frenchman, either at his or at the student's residence. References from Professor F. C. de Sumichrast...
TUTORING in French by a native Frenchman, either at his or at the student's residence. References from Professor F. C. de Sumichrast...