Word: musset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranÇaise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer...
...beginning of the movement in literature and art known as Romanticism, the age of Sentiment. The Parisian art world has made much of the Centenary of Romanticism this winter. But until last week New York's only notice of the occasion was the appearance of Eggs Alfred de Musset on the menus of some of the more effete speakeasies. The Balzac Galleries rushed into the breach last week with a handsome pink catalog marked: 1830-1930, CENTENARY OF ROMANTICISM, and a memorial exhibition of the water colors and drawings of the late great Constantin Guys...