Men and Women of the eighteenth century
By: by Arsene Houssaye,
Publisher: Redfield, [etc.
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; Court and courtiers
Table of contents: title: v. 1: Dufresny. Fontenelle. Marivaux. Piron. The Abbe Prevost. Gentil-Bernard. Florian. Boufflers. Rivarol. Chevalier de la Clos. Gretry. Diderot. Boucher. Lantara. Louis XV. Mademoiselle de Camargo. Mademoiselle Guimard, a goddess of the opera. Sophie Arnould. Marie-Antoinette.; title: v. 2: Crebillon the tragic. Crebillon the gay. La Motte, an innovator of the XVIIIth century. Buffon. Cardinal de Bernis. Vade. Dorat. Abbe Trublet, one of the forty. Dehle, a philosopher. Watteau and Lancret. The Vanloos. Greuze. Madame de Pompadour. Three pages from the life of Dancourt. madame de la Popeliniere. Mademoiselle Clairon. A promenade in the Palais-Royal.