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...Excerpt: Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of Fre...

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...stem of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that cen- tral luminary to which ...

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...how he looked at me—quite, to begin with, as if he had never heard of this celebrity, who indeed at that moment was by no means in the centre of the h... ...t a loose diary of the situation, that I had made the acquaintance of this celebrity and that she was a pretty little girl who wore her hair in what u...

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...at some dinner and took her down, rather flattered at offering my arm to a celebrity. She didn’t look like one, with her matronly, mild, inanimate fac...

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...well, he saw that so vulgar and ignoble a name as Cabot could never attain celebrity. Monsieur de Parny, whose hair he cut, gave him the name of Mariu... ...en, in Paris, from a desire to reach more rapidly than by natural ways the celebrity which to them is fortune, artists borrow the wings of circumstanc...

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... the Caspian Sea; and it was from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the Crusaders as the Old Man of the Mountains, and spread t...

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...at humorsome tyranny, which, at a later date, con- tributed no less to his celebrity than his talent and his vast fortune, which was said to be due to...

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...ith which he snared the wariest provincial had brought him such commercial celebrity that all vendors of the “ar- ticle Paris”* paid court to him, and...

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...ally—I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor—would have struck me as a celebrity if celebri- ties often were striking. It was a truth of which I h...

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...rise this murderous disaster, which, as you may remember, had its gruesome celebrity. The wind would have prevented the loudest outcries from reaching...

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...rt, and troubled it. But the trouble was pleasure. The purple mantle which celebrity had draped for a moment round Nathan’s shoulders dazzled the inge... ...ked one another according to circumstances. This Bohemian resort, to which celebrity was the only ticket of admission, was a Hades of the mind, the ga... ..., done ten years of misery, strangled two or three passions, acquired some celebrity, either by books or waistcoats, by dramas or fine equipages; plot... ... the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some 97 Balzac good prey, a celebrity, a man of enough wit to give and take. There’s Nathan; will you h...

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....” Crowns have adorned others, but she adorned her crowns. It was a swift celebrity the assassin achieved. And it is marked by some curious contrasts... ...rtion as to how large or how small had been their intercourse with the new celebrity. The two or three who had really been on a sort of familiar footi... ... of Stratford. Does this mean that in Stratford he was not re garded as a celebrity of any kind? “We are privileged to assume”—no, we are indeed ob... ...dn’t and wouldn’t have hap pened in his case if he had been regarded as a celebrity at the time of his death. When I examine my own case—but let us d... ...uirer some first hand things about him if he had in those last days been a celebrity and therefore a person of interest to the villagers. Why did not ... ...on that the Stratford Shakespeare was a person of no public consequence or celebrity during his lifetime, but was utterly obscure and unimportant. And...

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... Henry James value should not have been treated by his contemporaries as a celebrity. We manage things very differently to-day. The immediate successo... ...weak lungs; and this rather melancholy tradition, together with the former celebrity of the school of medi- cine still existing there, but from which ... ...t at a Shrewsbury or a Buffalo. It is true that the place enjoys a certain celebrity at home, which it amply deserves, moreover; for nothing could be ... ... rages and roars at its base—that I had no difficulty in understanding the celebrity of Vaucluse. I understood 174 A Little Tour in France it, but I ...

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...y when youth and beauty in some sort excuse the transgression. Any sort of celebrity bestows an inconceivable prestige. Apparently for women, as for f...

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... Madame de Stael, she kept her freedom and was thus more excusable for her celebrity, would be to satisfy many curiosities and do jus- tice to one of ... ...ame and work to criticism. In spite of any such desire, if she had it, her celebrity in- creased daily, partly through the influence of her salon, par... ...ess alone knew the se- cret of her writings and of her connection with the celebrity of Camille Maupin. But at the period of which we are now writing ... ...f a real society. In those days I thought her con- sumed with a desire for celebrity of one kind or another. Nevertheless, she has really much grandeu... ...ay a part in the eyes of society. She is one of those women who prefer the celebrity of a scan- dal to tranquil happiness; they fly in the face of soc... ...r to reign supreme over a salon. She then bethought herself of seeking the celebrity of the Duchesse de Langeais and the Vicomtesse de Beauseant. But ... ... her hair in bands as smooth and shining as ebony. Madame Schontz owed her celebrity as a pretty woman to the brilliancy and freshness of a complex- i...

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...tent neutralizing literature. The most conspicuous result of George Sand’s celebrity was to elicit the fact that France has a per- fectly enormous num... ... fame as a substitute for her disappointed ambitions. Poetry and dreams of celebrity, which had lulled her grief since her meeting with Anna Grossetet... ... and by the cure was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; ...

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...Ginevra di Piombo. This caused some embar- rassment to the young pair. The celebrity of the bride’s name attracted attention, and the spectators seeme...

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...ortu- nately for me,” replied the Comte de Granville. “A physician of your celebrity must know that at that age a man is still hale and strong.” “Then...

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...s. The man who is with him and looks like a match-hawker, is a great music celebrity— Gigelmi, the greatest Italian conductor known; but he has gone d...

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...great man.” “There must indeed have been some good in him.” “He was a high celebrity. You’ve often heard of him.” Baron wondered an instant. “I’ve no ...

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...; and as to your friend’s, I don’t see why his should, either. He wasn’t a celebrity himself, I suppose?” “No, no.” “Then the letters can be addressed...