Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...modern novelists have chiefly described only the exterior cosmopolitan life of a band of pleasure-seeking people, who, though styling themselves Parisians, are not true Frenchmen. What M. LeRoux purposes to study in his lectures, is not the caricaturists, but the painters of the French home life, which is so little known abroad. Many of these writers are known personally to M. Le Roux, and it is through them that the various aspects of true French can be seen...
...Amante" and "les Transatlantiques" are the chief works of M. Abel Hermant. The latter is a mild satire without malice on the customs of modern Frenchmen and Americans. It tells of the different characteristics of the families of a French nobleman living in Paris, and of his wife the daughter of an American millionaire...