Excerpt from The Prima Donna, Vol. 2 of 2: Her History and Surrounding From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century The Memoirs of M. De Viel Castel are extremely amusing because they aie excesswely personal. He is emphatically what the French call a manwise lnue; he has a marvellous flair for scandalous anecdotes, which we may be suie lose nothing in the telling; With a malicious memory which seems never to have been at fault. No doubt, in the venal Court of the Second Empire, he found subjects enough for his ...
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Excerpt from The Prima Donna, Vol. 2 of 2: Her History and Surrounding From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century The Memoirs of M. De Viel Castel are extremely amusing because they aie excesswely personal. He is emphatically what the French call a manwise lnue; he has a marvellous flair for scandalous anecdotes, which we may be suie lose nothing in the telling; With a malicious memory which seems never to have been at fault. No doubt, in the venal Court of the Second Empire, he found subjects enough for his cynical humour and if he had been constrained to defend actions for libel, he could probably in most cases have made a plausible defence At all events, it would have been dangerous to put him in the Witness-box, and drive him to stir the mud in self defence under severe cross-examination. What makes his memoirs such entertaining reading is that he has not only a good memory for bad stones, but that in his rapid portraiture he shows something of the power, of the shrewd insight, and of the graphic Wit of a saint-simon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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