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A long-running story that colors a city At 80, Herb Caen still tells a tale of San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO -- His weekend was routine: tennis, dining out, a
movie. But days before his 80th birthday, Herb Caen was, as always,
working. He is in constant search of journalistic morsels to entice
readers into his daily column, which has entertained, informed and
occasionally irked generations of Californians.
Caen's five-times-a-week column in the San Francisco Chronicle is
a legend in American journalism. No columnist has defined and
distilled a city so completely. San Francisco's image of San
Francisco is largely what Herb Caen has made it.
Since 1938, with time out for service in ...
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The pauper who tamed the royal tomcat
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...25 years d'Aubigne's senior: Paul Scarron, whom she met in Paris when she...for d'Aubigne, marriage to Scarron represented deliverance from a lifetime...social humiliation. Better yet, Scarron happened to be a renowned man of...
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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV.(Books)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...her way to Paris, where she met Paul Scarron, a middle-aged man famous for...once borrowed 1,148 livres from Scarron, and never repaid the debt.) They married in 1651, even though Scarron "could do little more than scratch...
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Scaroon Manor ... storied past, promising future.(Schroon Lake)
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist
; ...novelist, songwriter and playwright Paul Scarron, whose sometimes bawdy songs and sayings...home. Some say the name was inspired by Scarron's widow, and later wife of Louis XIV, Madame de Scarron de Maintenon. Other possible explanations...
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BIOGRAPHY MUNRO PRICE ON THE SCHOOLMARM CHARMS OF A ROYAL MISTRESS Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV BY VERONICA BUCKLEY BLOOMSBURY, pounds 25, 452 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...way, she first married the crippled poet and satirist Paul Scarron, mixed with Racine, Lully and Madame de Sevigne...its most glittering salon, that of her first husband Paul Scarron. After his death, Francoise became a governess - not...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Madame de Maintenon: The story of M.(Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...at the age of 15, she married the 42-year-old Paul Scarron, a horribly disfigured poet and wit. From her mother...favourite mistress, chose the, by then, widowed Francoise Scarron as governess for her growing brood of royal bastards...
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Catherine Marchal-Weyl. Le Tailleur et le fripier. Transformations des personnages de la comedia sur la scene francaise (1630-1660).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News
; ...principally Francois Le Metel de Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and Paul Scarron, and more incidentally Pierre and Thomas Corneille...musicality that French playwrights, with the exception of Scarron, largely missed in their adaptations. Yet these misconstruals...
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 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Hidden but hardly far from view.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
; ...streets of La Rochelle; eventually married to the poor and hideously deformed, but socially well-connected poet Paul Scarron; governess to the king's bastard children by his mistress Athenais, marquise de Montespan; finally, in middle...
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French Bourgeois Culture. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Comparative Sociology
; ...since the early part of the twentieth century. Bourgeois culture is more nearly aristocratic than proletarian, and Paul Scarron's denigrating seventeenth century description of the bourgeoisie as carbon copies of the court nobility is undoubtedly...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Cherchez les femmes; Critic's choice.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...final, longest-lasting and most influential mistress. Francoise de Maintenon had been married to a playwright, Paul Scarron, not the badge of respectability in the 17th century that it is for Fraser herself today. Three years older than Louis...
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