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The political group of the French Revolution known as the Jacobin Club was not located on the Rue St.-Jacques, nor did it take its name from that street as TIME [July 6] records. The club had as its quarters the former library of the Dominican monks of the Rue...
Since the Dominicans were first established in Paris (1218) in the monastery of St. Jacques, near the Rue St.-Jacques on the Left Bank, the friars were otherwise known as the Jacobins. That name was derisively applied to the political order for having the Dominicans as landlords . . .
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LORD BYRON (276 pp.)-Edited by Jacques Borzun-Farrar, Straus & Young ($3.75).
The world, in fact, has been so fascinated with the erotic side of George Gordon, Lord Byron, that it has almost forgotten that he was, after all, a rock of strength as well-allowing for a few streaks of soft shale in the composition. The Selected Letters of Lord Byron...
At a Madrid bullfight, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, getting her first taste of a real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own...