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...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it wa... ...onounced by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government ... ...hat only a few short years ago this province, so intimately 7 Henry James French, was under the heel of a foreign foe. To be inti- mately French was ... ...y evening, at so modest an hostelry. At the little inn at Chenon-ceaux the cuisine was not only excellent, but the service was graceful. We were waite... ...ream of the Hotel de France. I was obliged to cultivate relations with the cuisine of this establishment. Nothing could have been more me- ridional; i...

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...s to glance at his costume, which was rather more ornate than the rules of French taste allow. He pulled down his collar and his black velvet waistcoa... ...drea Marcosini had been welcomed in Paris with the cordiality, essentially French, that a man always finds there, when he has a pleasant wit, a soundi... ...Paris life; but they may be reminded that Count Andrea Marcosini was not a Frenchman. Brought up by two abbes, who, in obedience to a very pious fathe... ..., and he was still open to those sudden but deep impressions against which French education and manners are so strong a protection. In southern lands ... ... conceive that I am gifted with the organs needful for the appreciation of French music. If you were dead, monsieur, and Beethoven had composed the ma... ...ing them down with Mara- schino from Zara, to the prosperity of the French cuisine. The Count took advantage of this happy frame of mind, and Gambara ...

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...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...we saw were still rich, tawdry, and splendid to outward show, although the French, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and th... ...Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind... ...uffed with forced-meats; yellow smoking pilaffs, the pride of the Oriental cuisine; kid and fowls a l’Aboukir and a la Pyramide:a number of little sav...

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...d unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed- ish artists should be translated into Italian f... ...e were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up. Eve... ...ascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simp... ...hese foreign marriages!” Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. Jackson continued with deliberation: “No, she was not at th... ...an, and related by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of... ...ned a volume of the “Contes Drolatiques,” made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: “What learned things you read!” “Well—?” he asked, as s...

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...ich were allowed to gather dust in the depths of a bronze jar; a series of French and English maids giving warning amid a chaos of hurriedly-ransacked... ...childish than the earlier ones which had centred about the possession of a French jointed doll with real hair. W as it only ten years since she had wa... ...cial neatness of Mrs. Peniston’s drawing-room and in the excellence of her cuisine. She belonged to the class of old New Y orkers who have always live... ...heory that her daughters actually did go to church every Sunday; but their French governess’s con- victions calling her to the rival fane, and the fat... ... the best introduction to society. If the company was not as select as the cuisine, the Welly Brys at least had the satis- faction of figuring for the... ...lor with his impersonal club fare, alternating with the equally impersonal cuisine of the dinner- party! A man who lived in lodgings missed the best p... ...r, and mentions her having been sent there as proof of the incompetence of French doctors. That’s Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave prep... ...gers-on—manicures, beauty-doctors, hair-dress- ers, teachers of bridge, of French, of “physical development”: figures sometimes indistinguishable, by ...

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... hardly be told what this implies; it might be defined in the words of the French critic just named as “a tendency to pity.” One might indeed go furth... ...yarevsky (N. A.), 1903; Shenrok (V. I.), Materials for a Biography, 1892; (French) Leger (L.), Nicholas Gogol, 1914. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST POR... ...the manner of their dancing attendance upon their womenfolk, so glib their French conversation as they quizzed their female companions. As for the oth... ...rds, and in no case was their hair curled or waved or arranged in what the French call “the devil-may- care” style. On the contrary, their heads were ... ... princi- pal subjects which constitute the basis of human virtue to be the French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), p... ...tion, as well as to supplement the pie with other products of the domestic cuisine; while, for his part, Chichikov returned to the drawing-room where ...

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...cially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better part of three months to find him and ... ...ling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals... ...rtain letters to friends in America were misinterpreted by an over-zealous French cen- sor. It only adds to the indignity and irony of the situa- tion... ...usiastic lover of France and so loyal to the friends he has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust conf... ...I would do something to make American citizenship as sacred in the eyes of French- men as Roman citizenship was in the eyes of the an- cient world. Th... ...m, get his baggage, at once.” My things were mostly in the vicinity of the cuisine, where lodged the cuisinier, mechanician, menusier, etc., who had m... ...gh the open door of a little room. Which little room is in the rear of the cuisine; a little room filled with the inexpressibly clean and soft odour o... ...aid talk being delivered by Afrique. As a matter of fact, I was not in the cuisine proper but in the little room which I have mentioned previously. Th... ...h the locked door of the cabinot situated directly across the hall from la cuisine, the insane gasping voice of a girl singing and yelling and screech...

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...d, dating perhaps from the Egyptian Pharaohs, and evidently derived from the French verb croquer, which means to eat, to devour, in general to absorb ... ... certain well known bon vivant of the highest society, probably weary of the cuisine at Borel’s and at the X. Club, went into the Arcade, into the pla... ...the mon ster cooked like beef steak, with mustard, onions and potatoes. The French followed in the train of Lesseps prefer the paws baked in hot ashe...