Word: marquisate
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Sacred Bodies. Born into a family of wealthy Jewish diamond merchants, Sachs adopted the complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young...
At the dawn of the Spanish Renaissance, an elaborately carved and colonnaded patio was the pet and pride of Don Pedro Fajardo, first Marquis of Vélez and fifth governor of the Kingdom of Murcia. At the turn of the 20th century, the patio became the proud possession of...
When the Marquis of Vélez, a man of magnificence, brought in a handful of Italian stonemasons to work on his patio, he was bringing the Renaissance to the feudal, long-Moorish plains of Andalusia. He was only 28 when he ordered the work begun in 1506, but the...
Proust's insufferably stuffy Marquis de Norpois to Lawrence Durrell's womanizing George Pombal. A former British diplomat gives the French high marks for intelligence and credits their exhaustive training with producing minds that "operate with a rapidity and lucidity that is the envy of their colleagues." In...
On the Fringes. She was born in Martinique, the eldest daughter of an impoverished planter, and might easily have spent her life there except for a happy accident. An aunt became the mistress of the Marquis de Beauharnais.