Author: Roger Boutet De MonvelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781293344804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Beau Brummell and His Times - Primary Source Edition
Author: Roger Boutet De MonvelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781293344804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Beau Brummell and His Times
Author: Roger Boutet de MonvelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dandies
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Beau Brummell and His Times - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Roger Boutet De MonvelPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781295936311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Beau Brummell and His Times
Author: Mary CravenPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354863190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Beau Brummell and His Times
Author: Roger Boutet De MonvelPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230198316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV About 1822, six years after Brummell had left England, Chateaubriand was able to say, "The dandy betrays the proud independence of his character by keeping his hat on his head, lounging upon a sofa, and stretching out his boots in the faces of ladies seated in admiration before him. He rides with a stick, which he carries like a wax taper, paying no attention to the horse which he happens to find between his legs. . . . It is said that he can hardly know whether he exists, whether the world is about him, whether it contains ladies, or whether he should greet his neighbour."1 It is thus obvious that Brummell's success had borne its fruit, and that his example had been unexpectedly triumphant. There was, 1 Chateaubriand, Mdmoires d'Outre-Tombe, ed. Bire, vol. iv. p. 246. moreover, no one else to serve as a model. While handsome George was reigning in Brighton, the Revolutionists in France had driven out the decent people. Most of these dmigrds met once more in London, but wretched was their condition. Povertystricken and dying of hunger, they were obliged first of all to find some means of earning their living, and the cheerfulness with which all these noblemen set to work is well known. Some, like M. de Caumont, set up as bookbinders; others became coal merchants, like M. de Chavannes; others, again, dancing masters, like the Chevalier de Payen.1 They snapped their fingers at fortune; and though constantly obliged to go without supper, they used to meet every evening to dance "to the violin of an assessor of the Parliament Court of Brittany."2 Notwithstanding their cheerfulness, their lives were very secluded, and they were in no position to set the tone of Society. When the Court of France had been destroyed and its members...
Beau Brummell and His Times
Author: Roger Boutet De MonvelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375433822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Beau Brummell, His Life and Times
Author: Carlo Maria FranzeroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Life of Beau Brummell
Author: William JesseThe Life of Beau Brummell
Author: William JesseBeau Brummell
Author: Ian KellyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743270894
Category : Dandies
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
An acclaimed biographer vividly recounts the dramatic and tragic story of Beau Brummell, the most famous man in late 18th-century England, the first modern celebrity and "metrosexual," from Brummell's meteoric rise as a society darling to his disgrace and plummet into poverty and madness.