A Primer of French Literature by F. M. Warren (1889). Timeline in La lyre francaise Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) Petite histoire de la littérature française Morceaux choisis des auteurs français du moyen âge a nos jours, 842-1900 (biography and selections) Class-book of French Literature François de Malherbe (1555-1628) Les hommes illustres qui ont paruContinue reading “17th Century French Writers – Resources”
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Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Four
Middle Eastern Fables Just as European authors found inspiration in the fables of Aesop, middle Eastern authors found inspiration in the fables of Bidpai. You may have noticed when you were reading the Indian fables, that the fables were stories within other stories. The fables of Bidpai, translated into Persian and retitled Kalīla wa-Dimna (KalilaContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Four”
Cecilia Beaux, Portrait of Cardinal Mercier (1919)
The final painting of today’s Artle – sent me on a brief quest to find out if the artist, Cecilia Beaux, was Catholic. Alas, nothing to be found with a quick search; only that the next year she painted anti-Catholic George Clemenceau (the first painting in today’s Artle). But her painting of Admiral Sir DavidContinue reading “Cecilia Beaux, Portrait of Cardinal Mercier (1919)”
Nihil sub sole novum 