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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Mademoiselle Clennonde.?Her first appearance on the stage.?Her professional talents and personal attractions.?Count de la Touche- Treville.?M. Desforges.?A tete-a-tete interrupted.?An unexpected arrival.?The old-fashioned sofa.?The hat, an accusing witness.?My escape.?The fire.?A hospitable reception.?A duel for Mademoiselle Clermonde.?Engagement at Versailles.?Mademoiselle Montansier.?Sketch of her life.?Her connection with Barras.?Love and friendship.?Mademoiselle Montansier in old age. Clermonde was the natural daughter of a lady and gentleman of distinguished rank. She'received a most accomplished education under the superintendence of her mother, who passed for her aunt. Nature had liberally endowed her with beauty and talent; and she possessed that delicacy, that undefinable grace, which constitutes the perfection of womanly attraction. At the age of fifteen she eloped from her mother's guardianship, in company with a young physician, who had fallen in love with her. She soon afterwards made her appearance on the stage, her precocious talent and ardent imagination having inspired her with a strong passion for the dramatic art. Clermonde soon shone out from the sphere of actresses of the ordinary class, and became a valuable acquisition to the theatrical profession. I must confess that I have seen very few actresses equal to her. At the period when I first knew her, her talent and beauty were the theme of universal admiration. We were - then both engaged at Amiens, where she reigned with sovereign sway. It would be difficult to imagine a more fascinating creature: she was deified on the stage, and worshipped in the coulisses. It depended only on herself to have realized the fable of Danae; but she had peculiar notions of her own, and such as are not very ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The French Stage and the French People Volume 1; As Illustrated in the Memoires of M Fleury. To get started finding The French Stage and the French People Volume 1; As Illustrated in the Memoires of M Fleury, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217083382

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Mademoiselle Clennonde.?Her first appearance on the stage.?Her professional talents and personal attractions.?Count de la Touche- Treville.?M. Desforges.?A tete-a-tete interrupted.?An unexpected arrival.?The old-fashioned sofa.?The hat, an accusing witness.?My escape.?The fire.?A hospitable reception.?A duel for Mademoiselle Clermonde.?Engagement at Versailles.?Mademoiselle Montansier.?Sketch of her life.?Her connection with Barras.?Love and friendship.?Mademoiselle Montansier in old age. Clermonde was the natural daughter of a lady and gentleman of distinguished rank. She'received a most accomplished education under the superintendence of her mother, who passed for her aunt. Nature had liberally endowed her with beauty and talent; and she possessed that delicacy, that undefinable grace, which constitutes the perfection of womanly attraction. At the age of fifteen she eloped from her mother's guardianship, in company with a young physician, who had fallen in love with her. She soon afterwards made her appearance on the stage, her precocious talent and ardent imagination having inspired her with a strong passion for the dramatic art. Clermonde soon shone out from the sphere of actresses of the ordinary class, and became a valuable acquisition to the theatrical profession. I must confess that I have seen very few actresses equal to her. At the period when I first knew her, her talent and beauty were the theme of universal admiration. We were - then both engaged at Amiens, where she reigned with sovereign sway. It would be difficult to imagine a more fascinating creature: she was deified on the stage, and worshipped in the coulisses. It depended only on herself to have realized the fable of Danae; but she had peculiar notions of her own, and such as are not very ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The French Stage and the French People Volume 1; As Illustrated in the Memoires of M Fleury. To get started finding The French Stage and the French People Volume 1; As Illustrated in the Memoires of M Fleury, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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