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"Fameuse, sa beaute, comme son omelette," as gravely added our driver. The beauty of this lady and the fame of her omelette were very sobering, apparently, in their effects on the mind; for neither guide nor driver had another word to say. Still the guide plunged into the rivers, and Fend l'Air followed him. Our cart still pitched and tossed we were still rocked about in our rough cradle.
Je me connais en beauté, my dear fellow, and I never saw such perfection, both of line and colour, as that. It is extraordinary; it excites one as an artist. Look, is that Wallace now going up to her? Kendal turned and saw a short fair man, with a dry keen American face, walk up to the beauty and speak to her.
"Men sometimes tire of that; if indeed she has it. Her coloring is her strong point, and that may not last forever;" and Mary's voice was no longer silvery. "You think so?" he said. "I think her grace is her strong point, 'la grâce encore plus belle que la beauté, and longer-lived beside. Few women move as she does, making it a pleasure to follow her with the eyes.
Phœnix-like, France arose from the ashes of the Hundred Years’ War, and it was Agnes Sorel, as priestess, who stirred the embers which hid the new life. Voltaire, generally more ready to scoff than to approve, wrote thus of Agnes Sorel: Le bon roi Charles, au printemps de ses jours, Avait trouvé, pour le bien de la France, Une beauté, nommée Agnes Sorel. Was it for the good of France?
At one stage of the representation, Iphigenia is led in triumph through the Greek camp, while a chorus of Thessalians sing "Que d'attraits que de majeste; Que de graces l que de beaute! Chantons, celebrons notre reine!" The audience took the cue and transformed themselves into actors. Every eye and every head turned to the royal box, and for the sea and time every hand was raised to applaud.
Nine times out of ten, what is the subject of these stories to which freedom of style gives the appearance of health? A tragic episode. I cite, at random, "Mademoiselle Fifi," "La Petite Roque," "Inutile Beaute," "Le Masque," "Le Horla," "L'Epreuve," "Le Champ d'Oliviers," among the novels, and among the romances, "Une Vie," "Pierre et Jean," "Fort comme la Mort," "Notre Coeur."
"Que Lady Jersey est donc belle!" s'exclamait un admirateur fervent, devant Lady Morley, sa rivale en beauté. "Dans sa toilette de deuil, en noir et avec ses diamants, elle semble personnifier la nuit." "Oui, mon cher," fit Lady Morley, "mais minuit passé."
Those who are disposed to question the beauty of French women, should have been at Longchamps to-day, when their scepticism would certainly have been vanquished, for I saw several women there whose beauty could admit of no doubt even by the most fastidious critic of female charms. The Duchesse de Guiche, however, bore off the bell from all competitors, and so the spectators who crowded the Champs-Elysées seemed to think. Of her may be said what Choissy stated of la Duchesse de la Vallière, she has "La grace plus belle encore que la beauté." The handsome Duchesse d'Istrie and countless other beautés
D'Arcy was a Frenchman, and the favourite of the Regent; and, on account of the comeliness of his person, obtained the appellation of the Sieur de la Beauté. The indignation of Wedderburn had not slumbered, and the conferring the honours and the power that had hitherto been held by his family upon a foreigner, incensed him to almost madness.
But, be this as it may, there is no mistaking the enthusiasm with which some of the best living writers of French have hailed these pages instinct, as one declares, "with a strange and marvelous poetry;" full of phrases "d'une intense suggestion de beaute;" according to another. Not that the whole of the Journal flows with the same ease, the same felicity.
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