Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country; hence his appreciation of nature. He was surrounded by the warmest family influences; hence his tenderness and also his confident and sunny Christinity. At the age of sixteen, he left his studies and led the life of a country gentleman. His reading consisted of the Bible, Ossian, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Bernardin de Saint Pierre; especially Chateaubriand who gave him his taste for melancholy; finally Plato and Petrarch to whom he owed his contion of love considered as a religion...
...Jean Jacques Rousseau that we must attribute the renovation of French literature. Now the characteristic of this writer is his leaning towards sensibility. He is mobile, restless and capricious. He believes thatinature is good, that society is bad. He introduced himself to the world in his "Confessions." It was under his influence that French literature was to undergo a great change...
...this has proven. Its comedy scenes and situations are amusing, its romantic story affords ample opportunities for good acting, and Planquette's tuneful numbers delight all lovers of good music. The cast will be as follows: Serpolette, Clara Lane; Germaine, Laura Millard; Henri, Marquis J Corneville, J. K. Murray; Jean Grenicheux, Edgar Temple; Gaspard the miser, Oscar Girard; The Bailli, Lindsay Morison; Notary, Dick Jones...
...Warner, Jean...
...taking a place in the excise, he removed his family to Dumfries, and there spent the shadowed years that remained to him. Although his relations with women were many and complicated, he had in the main a high and noble character. So far from doing wrong to Jean Armour and her family, he did them generous justice, and although he was in a sense disloyal to Mrs. Macklehose-the "Clarinda" of the letters from "Sylvanda"- the disloyalty was necessary to enable him to keep faith with Jean...