Word: musset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station at Astapovo...
...father had a scheme to water the dried-up fountains of Aix. But he died in the midst of this first promising project and his wife and heir were legally deprived of financial reward. Up to Paris went young Zola, his imagination glittering with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism...
Here is shown that strange and fascinating affinity between love and hate that sometimes drives playwrights to their pens. The connubial convulsions of this pair recall the passionate spats and spasms of Alfred De Musset and George Sand. They are modern de Medicis in love. There is poison in their kisses...
...debt incurred by the Greek play of last year which was produced almost regardless of expense. The debt must by now have been paid off, judging by the crowds which attended the "Oedipus". The French Society has been busy and has produced Alfred de Musset's "II ne Faut Jurer de Rien" with great success, whilst the Marlowe is to act Ben Jonson's "Volpone" beginning on March third. The Conventional little bird has informed us that it is likely to be an unusually good performance. Most popular of all, however, will be the Cambridge Amateur Operatic Company's "Mikado...