He is a descendant of those delicately feminine, seductively brilliant, facile and spontaneous, sparkling and charming painters who were known in the eighteenth century as peintres des fetes galantes.
He was the specialist of languishing flesh and poudre de riz, the refined interpreter of aristocratic beauty, one on whose palette there might still be found a delicate reflection of the fetes galantes of the eighteenth century.
What shall we say of those fetes which are so multiplied amongst us?
We may thence easily discover whyfetes are necessary.
The duty assigned to the new mistress was that of keeping Francis busy with fetes and other amusements.
She was soon invited by her friend Barras to all the balls and fetes under the Directorate.
At court, she opposed all foolish extravagance, such as the endless fetesand amusements of all kinds which had become so popular under Mme.
I stepped down into the fetes from my hill top--and even put on a crimson lucco and a beautiful black velvet headgear and disported myself at the great ballo storico that was given at the Palazzo Vecchio to the King and Queen.
He had, moreover, a fine establishment and gave fetes and dinners; admitting none of his old friends to his house if he thought their position in life likely to compromise his future.
Les fetes d'Osiris au mois de Khoiak," in Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et a l'Archeologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes, iii.
We have arrived here just in time for the fetes of July.
She received her guests, she presided over her circle, she attended fetes with a natural charm peculiar to her, which I passionately admired from the moment when I was old enough to follow in her wake.
The Fetes Committee are perfectly willing to render all the assistance in their power towards this object, but I am sure that your correspondent would not desire that their funds should furnish the necessary amount.
Did not the Committee of the last Castle Fetes derive more additional "grist to the mill" by the fact that the guns were to be seen under their auspices alone?
A series of fetes took place on the Castle grounds this Whitsuntide, under the management and for the benefit of Mr. Alfred Bunn, of the Opera House, London.
After the fetes on the French side, the party crossed the frontier and continued this international festival at Puigcerda.
In Roussillon the religious fetes and ceremonies are conducted in much the flowery, ostentatious manner that they are in Spain, and not at all after the manner of the simple, devout fetes and pardons of Bretagne.
Fetes and crimes were curiously intermingled within its walls, for always little rivulets of blood flowed in mediaeval times as the accompaniment of the laughter of the feast.
Many imperishable souvenirs are left of the reign at Orthez of the brilliant Gaston de Foix, when tourneys and fetes followed in rapid succession.
On a golden November sunlit day, amid the ring of mountains all resplendent with a brilliant autumn verdure, this grandest of all Fetes of St. Martin was held.
The fetes ended long after midnight, after a gala performance at the theatre, at which the Marseillaise and the Spanish national air were enthusiastically cheered.
I had formed a very imperfect idea of the splendour of the royalfetes at Versailles.
I was particularly struck with the gala fetes at the beginning of the reign of Louis XV.
You cannot figure to yourself the pain I endure on seeing descriptions of his fetes everywhere.
These advantages, which were attended only by glory, encouraged Napoleon in the hope of triumphing in the Peninsula, and enabled him to enjoy the brilliant fetes which took place at Paris in celebration of the birth of the King of Rome.
However, her journey did neither good nor harm; she had many invitations to fetes given in honor of herself, was frequently asked to dinners, balls, etc.
They gave fetes in my honor, were perpetually devising fresh schemes to render the place agreeable to me; and in that they perfectly succeeded, for I quitted Compiegne with no other regret than that my stay there was at an end.
He appeared weary of the fetes which were given, and especially with the deadly-lively company of the two Duras.
We knew where she worshiped; we knew the houses she frequented, the charities she patronized, the fetes she adorned, every new costume that her wearing made the fashion.
The fetes were celebrated in seasons different from those in which they were instituted, so that of Ceres happened when the wheat was in the blade, and that of Bacchus when the raisins were green.
But it was necessary also to bring back the public fetes to the seasons they ought to be held in: for this purpose Caesar was obliged to insert in the current year, 46 B.
There were some also at Paris, and at Sceaux, where Madame du Maine gave many fetes and played many comedies, everybody going there from Paris and the Court--M.
A series of fetes and banquets were given to the illustrious visitors; one of them by the merchants, and another by the Lord Mayor, which had seldom been surpassed in magnificence.
In celebration of this event, he gave one of the grandest fetes at Carlton House that had ever been witnessed in England.
On that occasion, several splendid fetes were given in his honor by various members of the nobility.
The fetes had been magnificent; and Colbert could not restrain his delight.
The hecatombs of the Asiatic victors, the fetes of Dahomey alone could give some idea of this butchery of proletarians.
The fetes of Baron Haussmann awoke no such sonorous echoes.
From the Place du Marche three cannon joined their fire to that of the Place des Fetes in order to protect the Buttes Chaumont.
At the Place des Fetes two of our pieces enfiladed the Rue de Crimee and protected our right flank.
The people ran up to see them pass, and the Place desFetes was dismantled.
Now, the edileship required a large fortune; for the ediles were obliged to spend great sums in fetes and public works to please the people.
To the animation of fetes and pleasures had, all of a sudden, succeeded a gloomy silence.
Fetes were given at the Chevrette for which I composed music.
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