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The picture I was doing for the Salon is not yet finished. You may well understand that I can have no pleasure in sending something that is not entirely good, at least that is as good as I may do. I am flattered by the admiration of B.... you find her intelligent; she is so, but when you know her better you will see that the first days she looks more that she is in reality.
A portion of the summer of 1861 he dreamed away in an abandoned mill near Fontvieille, between Tarascon and Arles. From here he sent to the Parisian newspapers L'Evènement and Le Figaro those delightful stories and sketches which were gathered and published in 1869 under the title "Lettres de mon moulin." Of all the many volumes of Daudet's collected works this is the most satisfying: it is here that the distinctive products of his genius are to be sought; and it is on these stories, with a few from later collections, and on "Tartarin de Tarascon," that his claim to immortality will finally rest. It is here that we find several of his most excellent stories: "Le Secret de maître Cornille", "La Chèvre de M. Seguin", "La Mule du pape", "Le Curé de Cucugnan", "L'
They are not liars: they are suffering simply from the effects of a mirage. To understand what is meant by a mirage, you must go to the south of France. There you will find a magic sun which transforms everything, which takes a molehill and makes of it a mountain.
Some day your feet will find the way That gives you back your lost once more. The only answer I can give To any question such as this From those who miss a mother's face Is: Heaven is where that mother is! Deux petits enfants pleurant amèrement, Vinrent rôdant pleins de chagrin dans la rue. Pauvres épaves sur la plage tempétueuse de la vie! Couverts de haillons et les pieds nus.
I sincerely hope that the French government may find them as anxious as we have been to maintain the closest possible union between France and England; more anxious, whatever may have been said or thought to the contrary, I am quite sure they cannot be. Yours sincerely.
I told him what they were doing. 5. Some Tarasconians used to assemble and eat big pieces of beef. 6. Take some if you find any. 8. Will you tell me what each one had at the end of his gun? 10. Throw it with all your might.
30 14 en toile blanche: en is used to denote the material of which a thing is made. De also may be used: une table d'acajou, but we find des commodes en acajou 82 7; cf. un sac de cuir 51 4, une serviette en cuir 71 14. 30 17 d'une longueur: for the suppression cf. note to 15 21. 30 22 venaient l
We know how deep and lasting was the grief of Mme. de La Fayette for the loss of the man with whose life her own had been so long and so closely united. On March 17th, 1680, Mme. de Sévigné writes: "M. de La Rochefoucauld died last night. When again will poor Mme. de La Fayette find such a friend, such kindness, such consideration for her and her son?
1322 se trouvait-il 'did it happen' Se trouver = 'to find oneself, itself, 'to happen, 'to be'. 1326 Marseille: 'Marseilles, the greatest seaport in France and the metropolis of the south, only sixty miles from Tarascon. 1328 Beaucaire: a city on the Rhone, opposite Tarascon, to which it is joined by a long suspension bridge, cf. note to 18 11. 13 30 diable de pont: cf. note to 1 12.
2 6: pot de réséda: 'mignonette pot. Pot de fleurs = 'flower pot' Logically we should expect, and in a dealer's catalogue we find, pot
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