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The Paris Sketch Book is a collection of Thackeray's short stories, descriptive pieces, art criticism and other short fiction and non-fiction writings concerned with or around Paris and written in the late 1830s. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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His wit is sharp, and at times skewering. Most memorable is his description of the work of iconic Georges Sand. His re-telling of the plot of Spiridion is akin to the simple boy’s cry of, “The Emperor has no clothes!” Even more cruelly (but how funny!), he makes the case that Louis XIV’s royal bearing was only clothes, with the man merely a hanger for the illusion they create. But who is more the fool—the foppish king, or those who see divinity in his accoutrements? It helps, when reading the Sketch Book, to have at least a rudimentary grasp of the history of France from Louis XIV through Napoleon III.