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... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit... ...family, 83 tribe, religion, or core of beliefs. In Europe, for example, Breton...

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...h, Sasha Pana, Scarlat Callimachi, Aurel Baranga, Geo Bogza - and by Andre Breton, Aragon, Eluard, Desnos, Soupault, Queneau, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Pr... ...n Smarandache intuits a writing of the pictures in which it can be seen an architecture of the sentiments. An introductory “little biography” at th...

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... pleasure, and fill the half-empty companies of his own bri- gade with his Breton conscripts. The word “conscript” which later became so celebrated, h... ...faces of the recruits, and suddenly broke silence. The slow advance of the Bretons had put a distance of three or four hundred feet between themselves... ...eat-bread,—a na- tional delicacy , the dismal delights of which none but a Breton 14 The Chouans can understand,—and began to eat with stolid indiffe... ... pronounced “ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient ass... ... uprousing the uncivilized masses of the nation. The sketch here made of a Breton valley and of the Breton men in the detachment of recruits, more esp... ...f the doors, the coarseness of the decorations, the want of harmony in the architecture, were all characteristic of the feudal manors of which Brittan...

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...ng scene of this volume, representing the man- ners and customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no longer except in history, and the... ...amous pictures in the “Comedy of Human Life.” K.P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, especially in Brittany, still possesses ce... ... of masonry, beyond which rises a bouquet of trees planted by the hands of Breton nature, one of the most luxuriant and fertile vegetations in France.... ...ustoms, their unchangeable physiognomies. The public square is filled with Breton costumes, which artists flock to draw; these stand out in wonderful ... ...cter of immutability which science gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even now, after the Revolution of 1830, Guerande is st... ...fairly well built of a species of slaty stone with granite courses, has no architecture; it pre- sents to the eye a plain wall with windows at regular...

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...eurie,” close to Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois. You will there ask for Jean le Breton, who will take you to the stable and give you one of my ponies which... ... is known to do thirty leagues in eight hours. Leave by the gate of Bussy. Breton has a pass for me; use it yourself, and make your way by skirting th... ...le exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle where the famous Thibault de ... ...eco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici t... ...features of that style. Therefore, at a pe- riod when a strict and jealous architecture ruled construc- tion, when the Middle Ages were not even consi... ...ateau of Blois had, therefore, the merit of repre- senting three orders of architecture, three epochs, three sys- tems, three dominions. Perhaps there... ...ing out to walk. Consequently, history has given the name of “Perchoir aux Bretons” to this piece of ground, which, in our day, is the fruit-garden of... ...t upon the open country of the V endomois, and down upon the “Perchoir des Bretons” and the moat, the only side of which La Fontaine speaks. The chate... ...he Vendomois, which overlooks the upper part of the town, the perch of the Bretons, and the postern gate of the chateau. Catherine had deceived the tw...

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...d 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 of Leon... ...s of Tours; for the town contains several goodly specimens of the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon wil... ... wing, taken by itself, has much of the bel air which was to belong to the architecture of Louis XIV.; but, taken in contrast to its flowering, laughi... ...or of this beautiful front, to which the new feeling for a purely domestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art cou... ...ux of Touraine, with their squareness corrected (as it is not in the Tudor architecture) by the curve of the upper corners, which makes this line look... ...rk a certain look of being softened and worn by time, lies the body of the Breton soldier, with, a cruci- fix clasped to his breast and a shroud throw... ... please. Fisher folk of pictuesque type were strolling about, most of them Bretons; several of the men with handsome, simple faces, not at all brutal,...

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...volution—V olume Two What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee! It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with... ...y, over in the Mother-Society, ask, being henceforth them- selves ‘neither Bretons nor Angevins but French,’ Why all France has not one Federation, an... ... in their Mirabeau;’ considerate North-blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bar... ...blime of those Addresses to an august Assembly, to a Patriot Restorer! Our Breton Captain of Federates kneels even, in a fit of enthusiasm, and gives ... ...ght and trim, with its straight streets, spacious squares, and Stanislaus’ Architecture, on the fruitful alluvium of the Meurthe; so bright, amid the ...

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.... This desire, well known to Dumay, will presently serve to illustrate the Breton obsti- nacy of the latter. The entrance to the Chalet is by a little... ... thousand francs from Gobenheim, a former clerk of his master. Dumay was a Breton transplanted by fate into Normandy. Imagine therefore the hatred con... ...obstinacy, and a good many persons explained it by the phrase, “Dumay is a Breton.” As for the cashier, he thought Madame and Made- moiselle Mignon wo... ...arked, and speaking always in a low voice as if listening to himself, this Breton, a former lieutenant in the Guard, showed the evidence of such reso-... ... as the rest of his face, indicating a tu- mult within him mastered by his Breton will; a slight sweat, which every one noticed and guessed to be cold... ...ery work of art, let it be in literature, music, paint- ing, sculpture, or architecture, implies a positive social util- ity, equal to that of all oth...

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... book there and make a very comfortable study of that extraordinary bit of architecture at the end.” On the other side of the passage, toward the gard... ...tune for her,” replied Bongrand after a pause. “Madame de Portenduere is a Breton and infatuated with her noble blood.” “Luckily—I mean for the honor ... ... de Portenduere. “What letters for a Kergarouet to receive!” cried the old Breton lady, wiping her eyes. “The admiral does not know his nephew is in p... ...ou have let your coffee get cold! Tiennette, Tiennette!” Tiennette, an old Breton servant sixty years of age, wear- ing a short gown and a Breton cap,... ...to Tiennette. “She is waiting for you in your father’s room,” said the old Breton woman. Savinien could not repress a shudder. He knew his mother’s ri... .... Savinien frowned as he heard the words. He knew the granite will, called Breton obstinacy , that distinguished his mother, and he resolved to know a...

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...extensive. He knew so well the right thing to say in a discussion on naval architecture, trivial, it is true, started by the old admiral, that one of ... ...e Count. “But how can you regard it as an honor to be a doctor?” added the Breton noble- man. “Ah, my young friend, such a man as you—” “Monsieur le C...

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...gether, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old Etrurian architecture, had probably already risen round the growing town, and all th... ...on two pikes, his 253 Yo n g e wife and her maid supporting his feet. The Bretons received them kindly, and gave him a small room, where, the next da... ...guillo- tined, and a few who succeeded in escaping found shelter among the Bretons, or one by one found their way back to La Vendee. M. de Donnissan w...

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...en laid across the entrance, and beyond it I saw a court enclosed in noble architecture. The main building faced me; and I now discovered that one hal... ...the story of Kerfol? An ancestor of his was mixed up in it. You know every Breton house has its ghost-story; and some of them are rather unpleasant.” ... ...duty to the saint. Her name was Anne de Barrigan, and she came of good old Breton stock, but much less great and powerful than that of Y ves de Cornau...

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... hear her streams repine. The towers in different ages rose; Their various architecture shows The builders’ various hands: A mighty mass, that coul... ...gering notes redeem, Decaying on Oblivion’s stream; Such notes as from the Breton tongue Marie translated, Blondel sung? O! born Time’s ravage to repa...

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...celebrities, the undergraduates, the concerts, the chapels, the boats, the architecture; all were touched on for further discussion by and by as they ... ...ey have been sitting on deck together, talking as much as they could about architecture and Italy, with their breath all blown away every moment. Ther... ...sleep again till I bring something to eat. We are lying to off some little Breton fishing village, and I am going with my brother to get some provisio...

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...y to ants on a pile of wood—is no more intelli- gible than the Bourse to a Breton peasant who has never heard of the Grand livre. With a few rare exce... ...s, and Mademoiselle des T ouches—a connection of the Grandlieus, who are a Breton family—were frequent visitors on their way to a ball or on their ret... ...n, here is a way of speaking French which is as much like yours as the low Breton dialect is like that of Bur- gundy. It will be most amusing to hear ... ...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of... ...pre- cincts the stamp of the early races, and, in the Sainte-Chapelle, the architecture of Saint-Louis. Municipal Council (to you I speak), if you bes... ...on. While mak- ing his arrangements to die, he wondered how this marvel of architecture could exist in Paris so utterly unknown. He was two Luciens—on...

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...nd music.’ Mrs. Bouverie now began talking to her about the church and its architecture, and of the children, in exactly the way that Elizabeth liked,... ...ag- ine his courteous conference with Bertrand du Guesclin, the brave ugly Breton?—Edward lying almost helpless on his couch, broken down with sufferi...

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... transcript of the Abbot’s monumental cross, his head being full of church architecture, while Nuttie carried a long green tin case, or vasculum as sh... ...old coffin-lids with floriated crosses, interesting to those who cared for architecture and church history, as Mr. Dutton tried to make the children d... ...said Annaple when they were gone, ‘he will not cry like the kloarek in the Breton ballad who wetted three great missals through with his tears at his ...

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... once you are engaged —” “Y es, that concerns me. I know what I am about; never- theless, I will freely consult with you.” “You do me great honor; but... ...nd nothing to M. Agnan through the initiative of Furet. He prepared, then, to sup off a teal and a tourteau, in a hotel of La Roche-Bernard, and order... ... and a tourteau, in a hotel of La Roche-Bernard, and ordered to be brought from the cellar, to wash down these two Breton dishes, some cider, which, t... ... take me aboard, and to show me what I have never seen.” “What is that?” “A live sea-fish.” “Monsieur comes from the province?” said a fisherman. “Yes... ... line of the castle, which cuts the horizon of the sea like a blade.” “Oh,” said D’Artagnan, “that must be very beautiful. But do you know there are a...

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...nd impulsive, said to Raoul, “Here we are, three masters and three servants. Our valets are well armed and yours seems to be tough enough.” “I have ne... ...d of us.” “Yes, you are right.” “But where shall we go?” asked Porthos. “To the hotel, to be sure, to get our baggage and horses; and from there, if i...

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...rpose was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon as the... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘...

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...ago; covered, as we said, with meal; nay with worse. For La Chalotais, the Breton Parlementeer, accused him not only of poltroonery and tyranny, but e... ...and musket-shot: and still the Edicts remained unregistered. The afflicted Bretons send remonstrance to Lomenie, by a Deputation of Twelve; whom, howe... ...e on arriving, it meets to take council; invites Lafayette and all Patriot Bretons in Paris to assist; agitates itself; becomes the Breton Club, first... ...sly at their post, doing what is in them. Clubs labour: Societe Publicole; Breton Club; Enraged Club, Club des Enrages. Likewise Dinner-parties in the... ... blood- shed on the streets of Rennes, and consequent march thither of the Breton ‘Young Men’ with Manifesto by their ‘Mothers, Sisters and Sweetheart... ...ght and trim, with its straight streets, spacious squares, and Stanislaus’ Architecture, on the fruitful alluvium of the Meurthe; so bright, amid the ...

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...ur tail. But, said Gargantua, will not you be content to pay a puncheon of Breton wine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you t... ...ar, for one puncheon, thou shalt have threescore pipes, I mean of the good Breton wine, not that which grows in Britain, but in the good country of Ve... ... his only, but 109 Rabelais the very barbarous nations of the Poictevins, Bretons, Manceaux, and those that dwell beyond the isles of the Ca- naries,... ...he courtesy which by them was used towards 152 Gargantua & Pantagruel the Bretons in the battle of St. Aubin of Cormier and at the demolishing of Par... ... of the abbey; and of this by letters patent passed a very good grant. The architecture was in a figure hexagonal, and in such a fashion that in every... ...should the walls be built, rang- ing them in good symmetry by the rules of architecture, and placing the largest in the first ranks, then sloping down... ...m the scuttle of the mast of the ship, that we may all drink thereof, like Bretons. Hereunto Pantagruel very willingly consented, and they drank so ne... ...Life. It is all with live stones that I set up and erect the fabrics of my architecture, to wit, men. It was, according to my opinion, quoth Pantagrue... ...d cages. The cages were spacious, costly, magnificent, and of an admirable architecture. The birds were large, fine, and neat accordingly, looking as ...

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...before her at the hindquarters of the post-horses, looking as blank as any Breton peasant listening to his recteur’s sermon. Suddenly a young man ridi... ...and the gray tours of Saint-Sulpice. From this standpoint the lines of the architecture are blended with green leaves and gray shadows, and change eve...

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... ger of the Supreme Deity. It may be interesting to observe here that the Bretons in reverence called butterflies, “feath ers from the wings of God.... ...Yhen otrasen jywasta, Yhen warttinan muruista.” 29 The Kalevala As to the architecture of the Kalevala, it stands midway be tween the epical ballads...