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Femmes d'artistes. English

Alphonse Daudet

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Femmes d'artistes. English

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ng the book, she would spend hours dreaming and sighing: "That would have been the husband for me!"

It is probable that all this would have remained in a state of vague aspiration, if at the terrible age of thirty, which seems to be the decisive critical moment for woman's virtue, as twelve o'clock is for the day's beauty, the irresistible Amaury had not chanced to cross her path. Amaury was a drawing-room poet, one of those fanatics in dress coat and grey kid gloves, who between ten o'clock and midnight, go and recite to the world their ecstasies of love, their raptures, their despair, leaning mournfully against the mantel-piece, in the blaze of the lights, while seated around him women, in full evening dress, listen entranced behind their fans.

This one might pose as the very ideal of his kind; with his vulgar but irresistible countenance, sunken eye, pallid complexion, hair cut short and moustaches stiffly plastered with cosmetic. A desperate man such as women love, hopeless of life but irreproachably dressed, a lyric enthusiast, chilled and disheartened, in whom the madness of inspiration can be divined only in the loose and neglected tie of his cravat. But also what success awaits him, when he delivers in a strident voice a tirade from his poem, the Credo of Love, more especially the one ending in this extraordinary line:

     Moi, je crois 
Ioana 11/17/2020
E super tare!
Gabriela 08/17/2019
Douasprezece tablouri delicioase, pline de ironie, muscand din tot ce e fals, ipocrit, pseudo-intelectual, pseudo-artistic in lumea burgheza, dar si din vanitatea artistilor insisi.
Andra 05/24/2012
I really liked the storys because they talk about love and they are a little bitter-sweet (maybe a little more bitter than sweet :)), but still really funny). Even if the book is called Aetists` Wives, I think it talks about marriage in general and the so many differences between men and women.
Colettemariehayes 01/19/2010
was waiting for a pearl in this collection of (very!) short stories. didn't find one. although the one about the French poet that marries an Italian woman who goes bat-you-know-what-crazy after her husband, talking passionately with his hands, accidentally breaks a good bottle of wine...that may hav

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