Word: hernani
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Franz Josef a necklace of cameos; King Umberto of Italy a fan. Wrote Victor Hugo after Sarah's performance in his play, Hernani: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round One for the new Romantic Movement...
...author of Hernani was the leader of the artistic radicals. He was no political radical...
Paris was undergoing all the horrors of a literary revolution. Shouting Victor Hugo's war cry, "The rose is as true as the cabbage!", young Romantics were shattering the classical drama. Plays like Hugo's Hernani, Dumas' Antony, Poet de Vigny's Chatterton ravished the intellectuals with lines like "Death to society; Death to reaction!", while white-robed heroines drank poison and bearded young heroes swung daggers...
Born in Holland in 1802 of French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...