Word: mon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revive in your own house the lost art of romance and take a bath with your husband . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over . . . Don't offer to his horrified eyes the ungainly sight of a bare bottom that will only remind him of a blimp struggling through a storm...
Bucolic Charm. Mama Proust called little Marcel "mon petit loup," but far from being wolflike, he was a Little Lord Fauntleroy who threw temper tantrums and suffered from asthma. Much of Proust's boyhood had bucolic charm. At Illiers (Combray in the novel), Dr. Proust's home town, the family romped along the hawthorn hedges of the Méréglise Way (later Swann's Way) or ambled along a winding river (later the Guermantes Way). On the lawns of the Champs Elysées, the 14-year-old played at prisoner's base...
...final songs were the six Ariettes oubliees that Debussy composed to evocative poems of Verlaine in 1888. Though youthful works, which were radically avant-garde in their day, they proved that Debussy was already a master Impressionist. "II pleure dans mon coeur" remains one of the most exquisite gems in the whole song literature...
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