Word: mazarin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the Institut de France, is, theoretically the highest honor that the French Republic can pay its painters, writers, musicians, sculptors, scientists and occasionally statesmen, warriors. Every October the 200 members assemble and occupy their armchairs in the great Renaissance hall of the College Mazarin to assert their own dignity and listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which...
...their master's degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find him, when representing Cromwell in France, carrying on a two-hour conversation in Latin with Cardinal Mazarin, we may infer that Dunster's College law of 1642, forbidding the use of the "mother tongue" even in conversation, was fairly well observed...
Thus begins another exploit of Mr. Holmes: "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone...
...world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "from the ink splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost...
...cardinal purple has been worn by many of the noblest men who ever lived and by some of the greatest rascals. Richelieu was the Cardinal-Duke, as was Cesare Borgia; de Rohan was the Cardinal-politician ;Reginald Pole, the Cardinal -man -without -a-country; Wolsey and Mazarin, the Cardinal-statesmen ; Newman, the Cardinal-poet ; and "in the person of James Gibbons the full flower of spiritual princeliness came to its blossom...