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It is of Gaëtan that the story is told in connection with Gluck, when the opera of "Orphée" was put in rehearsal. The dancer wished for a ballet in the opera. "Write me the music of a chacone, Monsieur Gluck," said the god of dancing. "A chacone!" ejaculated the astonished composer; "do you think the Greeks, whose manners we are endeavoring to depict, knew what a chacone was?"
Seeing how thoughtful I was, she politely enquired my name from Baletti, for he had presented me only as a friend, and without having given her notice of my visit. When he told her that my name was Casanova, she was extremely surprised. "Yes, madam," I said, "I am the son of Gaetan Casanova, of Parma." "Heavens and earth! what is this? Ah! my friend, I adored your father!
"Did they not?" said Vestris, amazed at the information; then, in a tone of compassion, "How much they are to be pitied!" Gaëtan retired from the stage at the successful début of Auguste, but appeared again from time to time to show his invulnerability to time.
Seeing how thoughtful I was, she politely enquired my name from Baletti, for he had presented me only as a friend, and without having given her notice of my visit. When he told her that my name was Casanova, she was extremely surprised. "Yes, madam," I said, "I am the son of Gaetan Casanova, of Parma." "Heavens and earth! what is this? Ah! my friend, I adored your father!
It was absolutely necessary for me to write this letter, for rage that has no vent must kill at last. From Linz I had a three days' journey to Munich, where I called on Count Gaetan Zavoicki, who died at Dresden seven years ago. I had known him at Venice when he was in want, and I had happily been useful to him.
He shed tears as he embraced me, and I promised to be his friend. My Departure from Grenoble Avignon The Fountain of Vaucluse The False Astrodi and the Humpback Gaetan Costa I Arrive at Marseilles While the three girls were helping Le Duc to pack my mails my landlord entered, gave me his bill, and finding everything correct I paid him, much to his satisfaction.
The Spanish portion commemorates the expedition of Inigo Ortiz de Retez with Gaspar Rico, in the San Juan, in the year 1545; some of the names being the Rio de S. Augustino; the island of Ortiz, I de Arti; the port of Gaspar Rico and the I. S. Juan, named after their little ship; the cape named Ancon de la Natividad de Nustra Siniora, being the term of their voyage which, according to Juan Gaetan, one of Villalobos' pilots, who wrote a description of it, extended to six or seven degrees of south latitude, must represent the modern Cape King William, or thereabouts.
Gaétan Vestris, the first of the family, known as the "Dieu de la Danse," and who held that there were only three great men in Europe, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Voltaire, and himself, dared to dictate even to Gluck. "Write me the music of a chaconne, Monsieur Gluek," said the god of dancing. "A chaconne!" said the enraged composer.
An oyster chanced to fall on Madame Gaetan's beautiful breast; and Tiretta, who was sitting near her, took it up with his lips as quick as lightning. Gaetan was mad with rage and gave his wife such a furious box on the ear that his hand passed on from her cheek to that of her neighbour.
He shed tears as he embraced me, and I promised to be his friend. My Departure from Grenoble Avignon The Fountain of Vaucluse The False Astrodi and the Humpback Gaetan Costa I Arrive at Marseilles While the three girls were helping Le Duc to pack my mails my landlord entered, gave me his bill, and finding everything correct I paid him, much to his satisfaction.
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