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Gambara (short Story)
''Gambara'' is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1837 in the '' Revue et gazette musicale de Paris'' at the request of its editor Maurice Schlesinger. It is one of the ''Études philosophiques'' of ''La Comédie humaine''. History Schlesinger commissioned the novella to promote Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, ''Les Huguenots'', which he was also publishing. At the time of its publication, Balzac was going every week to the Théâtre des Italiens, watching the shows from the box of the Guidoboni-Visconti, Italian friends of his who had first met him in the Scala in Milan and at the shows in Venice. The text was edited into a single volume with ''le Cabinet des Antiques'', published by éditions Souverain in 1839, before being published by édition Furne in 1846 in the ''Études philosophiques'', following '' Massimilla Doni'', a short story also written by Balzac shortly after returning from Italy, highly impressed by what he called the "mother of the arts". Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his '' magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books Of La Comédie Humaine
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a book cover, cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a Recto, leaf and each side of a leaf is a page (paper), page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Lambert
Louis Lambert is a politician, lawyer, and teacher from Prairieville, Louisiana. He is best known for his campaign for the 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election, which he lost to David Treen in one of the closest elections in recent memory. By losing this election, Lambert became the first Democrat to lose a general election campaign for governor in Louisiana since Reconstruction. Education Lambert attended Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ... for his undergraduate degree before receiving his LLB from Loyola University. Career In addition to running for governor, Lambert also served as a public service commissioner and state senator in Louisiana. References People from Prairieville, Louisiana 1979 Louisiana elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béatrice Didier
Béatrice Didier (born 21 December 1935 in La Tronche, Isère) is a French literary critic. Biography Didier was a professor of literature and a publishing series director. She earned a literary doctorate in 1965. She is also a Professor Emeritus of École normale supérieure (ENS), where she headed a seminary exposing the relationship between literature and music. Didier is a specialist of the French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries (especially Senancour, Chateaubriand, Stendhal and George Sand) as well as of autobiographical works. She edited and published numerous works, and contributed to the ''Europe'' magazine. She headed the series "Écrivains", "Écriture" and "Écrit" of the Presses Universitaires de France. She is the deputy chairwoman of the Société Chateaubriand. Works * * ''Chateaubriand avant le Génie du christianisme'' (ed.), Champion, 2006 * ''Oberman ou le sublime négatif'' (ed.), Presse de l'ENS, 2006 * ''Stendhal ou la dictée du bonheur'', K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Brzoska
Matthias Brzoska (born 24 June 1955) is a German musicologist. He leads his research and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Career Brzoska studied musicology in Marburg and Berlin with Reinhold Brinkmann, Sieghart Döhring and Carl Dahlhaus and French philology with Hermann Hofer. From 1981 to 1986 he was an assistant lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and received his doctorate in 1986 at the Technical University Berlin with a dissertation on Franz Schreker. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris on a research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1992 he was habilitated at the University of Bayreuth with a study on the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk. He then became professor of musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His research focuses on opera, music and intertextual relations between music and other arts. He undertook various research projects together with his wife, the musicologist Elisabeth Schmierer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palais-Royal
The Palais-Royal () is a former royal palace located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by the architect Jacques Lemercier. Richelieu bequeathed it to Louis XIII, and Louis XIV gave it to his younger brother, the Duke of Orléans. As the succeeding dukes of Orléans made such extensive alterations over the years, almost nothing remains of Lemercier's original design. The Palais-Royal now serves as the seat of the Ministry of Culture, the Conseil d'État and the Constitutional Council. The central Palais-Royal Garden (Jardin du Palais-Royal) serves as a public park, and the arcade houses shops. History Palais-Cardinal Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, the palace was the personal residence of Cardinal Richelieu. The architect Jacques Lemercier began his design in 1629; construction co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bourse
''La Bourse'' (''The Purse'') is a short story by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1832 by Mame-Delaunay as one of the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' (''Scenes of Private Life'') in ''La Comédie humaine''. Later editions of the work were brought out by Béchet in 1835 and by Charpentier in 1839, in both of which ''La Bourse'' was placed among the ''Scènes de la vie parisienne'' (''Scenes of Parisian Life''). It was, however, restored to the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' when Furne brought out the fourth and final edition in 1842; this heavily revised version of the story appeared as the third work in Volume 1 of ''La Comédie humaine''. Plot The young painter Hippolyte Schinner falls from a step-ladder while working in his atelier and is knocked unconscious. The noise of his fall alerts two of his neighbours, Adélaïde Leseigneur and her mother Madame de Rouville, who occupy the apartment immediately below. The two women revive the young man and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Chef-d'œuvre Inconnu
''Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu'' (English ''The Unknown Masterpiece'') is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper ''L'Artiste'' with the title ''Maître Frenhofer'' (English: ''Master Frenhofer'') in August 1831. It appeared again later in the same year under the title ''Catherine Lescault, conte fantastique.'' It was published in Balzac's ''Études philosophiques'' in 1837 and was integrated into ''La Comédie humaine'' in 1846. The work is separated into two chapters: ''Gillette'' and ''Catherine Lescault''. ''Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu'' is a reflection on art, and has had an important influence on modernist artists. Plot summary Young Nicolas Poussin, as yet unknown, visits the painter Porbus in his workshop. He is accompanied by the old master Frenhofer, who comments expertly on the large tableau that Porbus has just finished. The painting is of Mary of Egypt, and while Frenhofer sings her praises, he hints that the work seems unfinish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Cabinet Des Antiques
''Le Cabinet des Antiques'' (''The Cabinet of Antiquities'') is a French novel published by Honoré de Balzac in 1838 under the title ''les Rivalités en province'' (''Rivalries in the provinces'') in ''le Constitutionnel'', then published as a work in its own right in 1838 by the Souverain publishing house. With '' la Vieille Fille'', the work fits into ''les Rivalités'', an isolated group in the ''Scènes de la vie de province'' collection of ''la Comédie humaine''. In it, Balzac portrays the old nobility in the French provinces, ruined by the French Revolution and forgotten by the restored Bourbons. The marquis d’Esgrignon, his sister and his friends represent this social group, which the author had already portrayed in '' la Vieille Fille''. The younger generation within this class, represented by the marquis's son, causes his loss, sucked in by the whirlpool of Paris, where he lives merrily and ruins his fortunes. ''Le Cabinet des Antiques'' works as a sequel to ''la V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarrasine
''Sarrasine'' is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his '' Comédie Humaine''. Introduction Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while living alone in the rue Lesdiguières, undertook the composition of ''Sarrasine'' in 1830. Although he had steadily produced work for over a decade (without commercial success), ''Sarrasine'' was among his earliest publications to appear without a pseudonym. During the period in which the novella was written, Balzac was involved in many salons, including that of Madame Recamier. Around the time in which ''Sarrasine'' was published, Balzac experienced great success with another work, ''La Peau de Chagrin'' (1831). As his career began to take off and his publications began to accumulate, Balzac developed increasingly lavish living habits and frequently made impulsive purchases (such as new furniture for his apartment and a hooded white cashmere gown designed to be worn by a monk, which he wore at night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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