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Picciola
''Picciola'' is a novel published in 1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, re ... by Joseph-Xavier Boniface. Story The book tells the story of Count Charney, a former soldier who lost his trust in man and has been jailed for conspiring against Napoleon. Charney one day discovers a plant growing between two paving stones of his cell. This plant becomes for him a distraction, then an obsession, then a passion and finally it becomes a symbol of life and love. Through the physiological development of the plant he calls ''Picciola'' he learns to love and appreciate beauty through this real example of the evolution of nature. The image of a small flower that grows and survives with the care provided by Charney in a place so sinister as a prison, is an image of the force of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saintine
Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 – 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist. Biography He was born Joseph Xavier Boniface in Paris in 1798. In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled ''Poèmes, odes, épîtres''. In 1836 appeared '' Picciola'', a novel about the Count de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont, whose reason was saved by his cultivation of a tiny flower growing between the paving stones of his prison yard. This story is a masterpiece of the sentimental kind, and has been translated into many European languages.''The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information'', 11th ed. The novel earned him renown and came to be regarded as a classic of French literature.Garnett, Richard, ed. (1899). ''The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Braithwaite Martineau
Robert Braithwaite Martineau (19 January 1826 – 13 February 1869) was an English painter. Life Martineau was the son of Elizabeth Batty and Philip Martineau, a Master in Chancery. Through his mother, he was the grandson of Robert Batty, M.D. (1763–1849), physician and amateur painter. Martineau attended Colfes school for a few years at the age of 15. He first trained as a lawyer and later entered the Royal Academy where he was awarded a silver medal. He studied under Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt and once shared a studio with him. He died at the age of 43. In 1865, he married Maria Wheeler and had two children with her. His most famous painting, '' The Last Day in the Old Home'', portrays the household of a feckless squire after gambling away his family's inheritance. The man portrayed is Colonel John Leslie Toke (1839–1911) who was a friend of Martineau and was painted at his country home, Godinton House in Ashford, Kent. In an odd way life came to imitat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1836. Events *March 31 (dated April) – The first monthly part of ''The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens is issued in London. On April 20, the original illustrator, Robert Seymour (illustrator), Robert Seymour, shoots himself and Dickens has more freedom to develop the story in his own way. *April 2 – Dickens marries Catherine Dickens, Catherine Hogarth at St Luke's Church, Chelsea (London). They honeymoon at Chalk, Kent. *April 19 – Nikolai Gogol's satire ''The Government Inspector'' («Ревизор») is premièred at the Alexandra Theatre in Saint Petersburg before the Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and first published there. *June – Georg Büchner begins work on his play ''Woyzeck''; it remains unfinished when he dies the following year in Zurich. *August 20 – The legal deposit privilege in the U.K. is removed from the libraries of Sion College in London, the four universities in Scotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 French Novels
Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, reaches Sydney. ** Will County, Illinois, is formed. * February 8 – London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England. * February 16 – A fire at the Lahaman Theatre in Saint Petersburg kills 126 people."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p76 * February 23 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins, with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under Santa Anna. * February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
