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Pierre Curie wrote letters the way he conducted experiments: with patience, exactitude, and a deep respect for the slow accumulation of evidence. Across the…
When the curtain rose at the Comédie-Française on 12 February 1835, the Romantic movement in France reached one of its most charged moments. Alfred de Vigny's…
Few works of eighteenth-century theatre have provoked as much outrage, admiration, and imitation as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de…
The name Édouard Manet usually brings to mind canvases first — Olympia, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, the boating scenes along the Seine. Yet the painter kept…
Born in 1798 and reaching his literary peak in the mid-nineteenth century, Jules Michelet transformed the writing of history from a discipline of kings and…
A slim book of one hundred and eighteen sonnets, each polished until it rings like struck metal, sits on the open shelves of the State Library of Victoria in…
Théophile Gautier’s Le Capitaine Fracasse is often grouped with his shorter fiction because it shares their vivid settings, playful narration and fascination…
Eugène Sue’s The Wandering Jew is a vast French feuilleton novel of religious conflict, inherited wealth, family separation and social injustice. First…
The Countess de Ségur’s stories of Sophie remain among the most recognisable works of nineteenth-century French children’s literature. First published in 1859…