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...incredibly beautiful daughter. Born "in the age of Rousseau," Mathilde (Judith Godreche) is the antithesis of the world of Versailles that Gregoire is increasingly being drawn into. She, too, has a scientific mind and like Gregoire, is sacrificing her person for her goals by marrying a rich old nobleman who will finance her experiments. Their potential for romance is threatened by the single-mindedness that characterizes them both, and also by Gregoire's increasing involvement in the court. This also means involvement with the unofficial reigning queen of the court, the widow de Blayac (Fanny Ardant). The widow de Blayac...
...life stories of several in brooding, inward, coming-of-age chapters. These are effective, though they show signs of emptying the author's notebooks of a lifetime of cherished oddities, including the story that in the 1730s, Russia's Czarina Anna Ivanovna caused an out-of-favor nobleman to sit on hens' eggs and cackle until the chicks hatched...
Baron Pierre De Coubertin, the French nobleman who revived the Olympic Games, was a firm believer in the ancient Greek ideal of exercising mind and body in harmony. The role of sport is "at once physical, moral and social," he wrote. "I have often noticed that those who find themselves first in physical exercises are also first in their studies. The serious commitment in one area promotes the desire to be first throughout...
...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
Quick! can you name the five sports constituting the modern pentathlon? That's O.K. Even die-hard sports fans probably don't know that shooting, fencing, swimming, horseback riding and running make up this unique event--which, like just about everything else in Atlanta, is a sellout. French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, who revived the Olympics in 1896, designed the pentathlon as a Napoleonic, soldierly evocation of the ancient game (which included discus, javelin or spear throw, jumping, running and wrestling...