...not, as a forlorn hope, send for Monsieur Canivet of Neufchatel, who was a celebrity. A doctor of medicine, fifty years of age, enjoying a good positi... ...herself for him. He had deserted her for other women, and this sentimental celebrity did not fail to enhance his artistic reputation. The diplomatic m... ...boluses, infusions, lotions, and potions, that would bear far and wide his celebrity . No one in the world set foot there, and he respected it so, tha...

...f young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrity, such as Dostoevsky, Nekrassov, and Saltykov. Unhappily the reign...

...greater despots than Ferdinand II., yet he alone has had the unfor- tunate celebrity of kindling a thirty years’ war; but to produce its lamentable co...

...h soft features and polished manners, who evidently consid- ered himself a celebrity but out of politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of ...