Taunus
Taunus , range of the Rhenish Slate Mts., W Germany, extending c.50 mi (80 km) NE from the Rhine River, N of Mainz. It rises to 2,887 ft (880 m) in the Grosser Feldberg. The Taunus is covered by forests. Its southern slopes, the Rheingau region, have famous vineyards, notably at Rüdesheim, Johannisberg, Biebrich, and Kastel. Wiesbaden, Bad Nauheim, and Bad Homburg are the best known of the many mineral spas in the Taunus. There are many ruins of medieval castles and Roman fortifications.
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Pain as a pencil sharpener.(In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...his fame Henry James called Daudet "the happiest novelist of his...than a vendor of happiness". Daudet's particular gift, as he...Provencal in French. For his son Leon, who studied medicine and later...Bonaparte been a Corsican? If Daudet was a chronicler of the manners...
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A monster at the center; Close ties, with a monster at the center
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...giants of 19th-century France. Leon Daudet loves Jean-Baptiste Charcot and...creator, the personalities of Leon Daudet, Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Jeanne...two great literary dynasties. Leon Daudet, a medical student who had just...
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History
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/16/2009; 412 words
; ...literary giants such as Victor Hugo and Alphonse Daudet presided over Paris salons. Ushered in was...through the eyes of three young Parisians: Leon Daudet was the son of novelist Alphonse Daudet, Jeanne Hugo the granddaughter of Victor Hugo...
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Ideology and discourse in Proust: The making of 'M. De Charlus Pendant La Guerre'.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...ideologists and polemicists of his time: Leon Daudet, Maurice Barres, and Charles...socialist Leon Blum and the royalist Leon Daudet for his nomination to the Legion...article he had undertaken to thank Leon Daudet for his support in the Goncourt...
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The daisy-chain effect
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Stendhal, Gogol, Turgenev, Gautier, Flaubert, George Sand, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Leon Daudet (Leon Daudet?) and Proust. By the time he reaches the post-war period, one suspects that his research has been confined...
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Books: Shadows that hide the hero - The Death of Jean Moulin: biography of a ghost by Patrick Marnham John Murray, pounds 20, 290pp Every French schoolchild knows about Jean Moulin, Resistance martyr. But who was he, and how did he die? By Euan Cameron
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/17/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...affected at one extreme by the rise of Charles Maurras and Leon Daudet's far-right Action Francaise movement, and at the...the scandalous Stavisky affair and of the emergence of Leon Blum's Front Populaire. The young Moulin's sympathies...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/1/1996; 452 words
; ...author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1896; Erik Alfred-Leslie Satie (Eric Satie), composer, 1925; Alphonse Marie-Leon Daudet, novelist, 1942; Juan Domingo Pern, Argentine president, 1974. On this day: Sir Thomas More was put on trial...
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Ernst Weiss, 1882-1940
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the knife; and less than fifty years from the French surgeon Pean, sketched by Toulouse-Lautrec and described by Leon Daudet as follows: "He was drenched in blood and sweat, with his hands-or rather his clubs-as red as a murderer's...
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THE ARTIST AS A GARONNE PEASANT.(Vincent d'Indy)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...accident, exemplified what Maritain called "the peasant of the Garonne". As Alister Kershaw, in his Introduction to Leon Daudet, put it: "Then [the late nineteenth century] as now, intelligence was supposed to have been reserved by Nature...
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Whistler's Mother Lode; First of Four D.C. Exhibits Opens
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/9/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...s Other Egotistical, sardonic, that laugh is sensed often in this show. Whistler's laugh, wrote the Frenchman Leon Daudet, circa 1890, "was even more singular than his features, set and worn by sarcasm, and was composed of two or three...
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James, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...time in Paris where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, Maupassant, Daudet, and Zola. Later in the year, he settled permanently in England...See also Literature: Civil War to World War I . Bibliography Leon Edel , Henry James , 5 vols., 1953–72. The Henry...
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