Dumas' Paris
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Оглавление
Mansfield Milburg Francisco. Dumas' Paris
CHAPTER I. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II. DUMAS’ EARLY LIFE IN PARIS
CHAPTER III. DUMAS’ LITERARY CAREER
CHAPTER IV. DUMAS’ CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER V. THE PARIS OF DUMAS
CHAPTER VI. OLD PARIS
CHAPTER VII. WAYS AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER VIII. THE BANKS OF THE SEINE
CHAPTER IX. THE SECOND EMPIRE AND AFTER
CHAPTER X. LA VILLE
CHAPTER XI. LA CITÉ
CHAPTER XII. L’UNIVERSITÉ QUARTIER
CHAPTER XIII. THE LOUVRE
CHAPTER XIV. THE PALAIS ROYAL
CHAPTER XV. THE BASTILLE
CHAPTER XVI. THE ROYAL PARKS AND PALACES
CHAPTER XVII. THE FRENCH PROVINCES
CHAPTER XVIII. LES PAYS ÉTRANGERS
Отрывок из книги
At fifteen (1817), Dumas entered the law-office of one Mennesson at Villers-Cotterets as a saute-ruisseau (gutter-snipe), as he himself called it, and from this time on he was forced to forego what had been his passion heretofore: bird-catching, shooting, and all manner of woodcraft.
When still living at Villers-Cotterets Dumas had made acquaintance with the art of the dramatist, so far as it was embodied in the person of Adolphe de Leuven, with whom he collaborated in certain immature melodramas and vaudevilles, which De Leuven himself took to Paris for disposal.
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Through the influence of General Foy, an old friend of his father’s, Dumas succeeded in obtaining employment in the Orleans Bureau at the Palais Royal.
His occupation there appears not to have been unduly arduous. The offices were in the right-hand corner of the second courtyard of the Palais Royal. He remained here in this bureau for a matter of five years, and, as he said, “loved the hour when he came to the office,” because his immediate superior, Lassagne, – a contributor to the Drapeau Blanc, – was the friend and intimate of Désaugiers, Théaulon, Armand Gouffé, Brozier, Rougemont, and all the vaudevillists of the time.
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