The Atlantic Monthly Volume 56 pdf

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The Atlantic Monthly Volume 56 pdf

The Atlantic Monthly Volume 56. Jr. Philip Gengembre Hubert

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Author: Jr. Philip Gengembre Hubert
Page Count: 524 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2363/9781236318237.jpg
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781231035962
File size: 45 Mb
Download Link: The Atlantic Monthly Volume 56
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...looking as if the were a divinity escaped from one of Mignard's pictures; she wears a robe of pale pink satin damasked in silver, with tufts of pink feathers and aigrettes of silver, and her throat is eucircled by a necklace of nine rows of glorious pearls. And is not this Madame Henriette de France who appears next before us in the soft dark folds of her velvet dress, blue, of the blue called Eyes of Kings, wearing the colors and the monogram of the House of Orleans, walking like a goddess with her aerial step? No, it is Madame la Ducbesse de Chartres, as bewitching as the former, but far more happy. After the healthy fatigue of the bunt, or the delicious gallop over the thick carpet of autumn leaves, what exquisite pleasure to find one's self, in the evening, in the dazzling atmosphere of this royal dwelling, amid the lights, the flowers, the rare marvels of art, the rustling of silks, the busy hum of joyous converse, the ringing laugh of happy women, and the light rustliDg of their fans! Some of these favored guests go here, and some go there, as fancy lists. The ladies group themselves in the White Drawing-Room. The Grand Duke Wladimir amuses himself in the Monkey Room (Singerie), a little boudoir peopled with monkeys, dressed in the style of Louis XV. This is a grotesque assembly! The Monkey King, glorying in his purple and scarlet; the Monkey Messenger, bearing gallantly a love token to some fair Sultana; the Huntsman Monkey, the Monkey Musician, the Monkey Apothecary, ihe Gentleman Monkey, the Dandy Monkey, each believing his grimace alone to be irresistible; the whole furnishing so fine a satire that one is involuntarily reminded of Montesquieu's famous Lettres Persanes, and Beaumarchais's Comedies, which sting, while they amuse. This High Monkey Co...

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