When the report of your first meeting arrived in London, O! French Animals, it caused the hearts of the friends of Animal Reform to be...

The word lorette is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to ...

MY DEAR STRUNZ:—I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but f...

"The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring s...

I In September, 1835, one of the richest heiresses of the faubourg Saint-Germain, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, the only daughter of the M...

Whenever you have gone to take a serious look at the exhibition of works of sculpture and painting, such as it has been since the revo...

I inscribe this to you, my dear Heine, to you that represent in Paris the ideas and poetry of Germany, in Germany the lively and witty...

"Have you observed, mademoiselle, that the painters and sculptors of the Middle Ages, when they placed two figures in adoration, ...

I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproariou...

The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged rou...

CHAPTER I. THE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTES After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic ...

The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, s...

Leon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the noblest families of the Roussillon (Spanish originally) which, a...

The clock of the little town of Menda had just struck midnight. At that moment a young French officer, leaning on the parapet of a lon...

It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,—now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory, —whence our ...

To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to t...

Among all the pupils of the Oratorian school at Vendome, we are, I think, the only two who have afterwards met in mid-career of a life...

"Ah! madame," replied the doctor, "I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in ...

La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this ...

CHAPTER I On a cold morning in December, towards the close of the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing betrayed his poverty, was s...