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36 25 Alcazar: a music-hall. Alcazar means in Arabic 'the palace. 36 28 Ravel, Gil Pérès: popular comedians in Paris at the time Daudet was writing. 36 30 un bon gros vivant de Marseillais: a bon vivant is 'a man who lives well, 'a jolly fellow' On de see note to 1 12. 37 3 il se fit: cf. note to 5 23. 37 7 Machine en avant! machine en arrière! 'Go ahead! back her! Machine = 'engine'.
The Lives of the Scottish Poets, with Preliminary Dissertation on the Literary History of Scotland, etc., by DAVID IRVING, 2 vols. Edinburgh, Alex. Lawrie, 1804.
L'article Abélard, dans le Dictionnaire de Moreri, dans le Dictionnaire critique de Bayle, ainsi que les articles Héloïse, Paraclet, Foulque, Bérenger, Fr. d'Amboise. The History of the lives of Abeillard and Heloisa, by the rev. Joseph Berington, 2 vol. in-8°, Basil, 1793. Cet ouvrage fort estimé contient, avec une biographie étendue, une traduction et le texte des lettres d'Héloïse et d'Abélard.
Ernest believed in Alphonse's genius more than in his own, and bestowed on his younger brother the motherly devotion which Alphonse so gratefully and tenderly acknowledges in "Le Petit Chose," his romantic autobiography, where Ernest appears as "ma mère Jacques." The first years in Paris were the darkest in the brothers' lives.
Outside the main current of the plot Daudet sketches one of the little dramas of humble life of which he was so fond: the story of Delobelle, an impoverished actor who lives for his art while his devoted wife and daughter Désirée patiently ply the needle to earn bread. Daudet up to this time had been recognized as the greatest of French short-story writers.
Sketches of Old Times and Distant Places, by JOHN SINCLAIR. London, John Murray, 1875. A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, by his Friend, the Rev. JOHN W. BURGON Second edition. London, John Murray, 1859. Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who flourished in the Time of George III, by HENRY LORD BROUGHAM, 2 vols. Paris, Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1846.
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