"Gérôme" by Albert Keim (translated by Frederic Taber Cooper). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boo…
When Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was born at Lyons in 1815, under the fading light ofan Imperial sunset, these were scarcely the ideas that predominated in the national schoolof French art. Pictorial art, to confine ourselves to that, had, both before and during theFirst Empire, achieved at most a lumbering and trammelled flight; and the influence ofantiquity, so perceptible in the language as…
Fromentin EUGÈNE-SAMUEL-AUGUSTE FROMENTIN-DUPEUX was born at La Rochelle on the twenty-fourth of October, 1820. His family was a very old one and held in high honour throughout Aunis and Saintonge.Aunis, one of the ancient provinces of France, glows languidly beneath the caresses of a humid sun, enveloped in a thin veil of ocean mists, and at times she seems to float in the midst of her waves …