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The Prima Donna, Vol. 2 of 2: Her History and Surrounding From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)
by Henry Sutherland Edwards
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Excerpt from The Prima Donna, Vol. 2 of 2: Her History and Surrounding From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
The Memoirs of M. De Viel Castel are extremely amusing because they aie excesswely personal. He is emphatically what the French call a manwise lnue; he has a marvellous flair for scandalous anecdotes, which we may be suie lose nothing in the telling; With a malicious memory which seems never to have been at fault. No doubt, in the venal Court of the Second Empire, he found subjects enough for his cynical humour and if he had been constrained to defend actions for libel, he could probably in most cases have made a plausible defence At all events, it would have been dangerous to put him in the Witness-box, and drive him to stir the mud in self defence under severe cross-examination. What makes his memoirs such entertaining reading is that he has not only a good memory for bad stones, but that in his rapid portraiture he shows something of the power, of the shrewd insight, and of the graphic Wit of a saint-simon.
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Price: $13.57
bound: 316 pages
Publisher: Forgotten Books (May 20, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0259796522
ISBN-13: 978-0259796527
Weight: 15 ounces
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