" ...]Chauvinesque tirade )-plunged into lumbering praise of his genius, of which it knew nothing, -nothing except a few tame melodies, dating from Christophe's early days in Germany, which Christophe, who was ashamed of them, would have liked to have seen destroyed. But if the author of the article knew nothing at all about Christophe's work, he made up for it in his knowledge of his plans-or rather such plans as he invented for him. A few words let fall by Christophe or Olivier, or even by Goujart, who pretended to be well-informed, had been enough for him to construct a fanciful...

The life of Michelangelo offers one of the most striking examples of the influence that a great man can have on his time. At the moment of his birth in the second half of the fifteenth century the serenity of Ghirlandajo and of Bramante illuminated Italian art. Florentine sculpture seemed about to languish away from an excess of grace in the delicate and meticulous art of Rossellino, Disiderio, Mino da Fiesole, Agostino di Duccio, Benedetto da Maiano and Andrea Sansovino. Michelangelo burst like a thunder-storm into the heavy, overcharged sky of Florence.

The people's theater by Romain Rolland. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1918 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

C'est avec ce drame que Rolland debuta son cycle de huit pieces sur la Revolution francaise. Toutes ses pieces furent inspirees par le contexte politique et ideologique de la Troisieme Republique, mais Les Loups, contrairement aux autres pieces revolutionnaires, representaient la reaction spontanee de l'auteur a un evenement politique precis: l'affaire Dreyfus..."