Lanterna Rally

Author: Edith Sichel

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-28

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781330447864

Excerpt from The Story of Two Salons There are some secrets which the past keeps jealously from us. The mystery of Greek beauty is guarded by marble gods and goddesses; the colour and sunlight of the old Italian masters are buried with them beyond our reach in Venetia and Tuscany; the devout science which made austerity lovely in Fugue and Prelude seems no less a lost possession; and, search as we will, the secret of the art of society lies hidden in France, in the Paris of the eighteenth century, in the graves of tender ladies and frilled philosophers, as sparkling as they were profound. A few men and women there were who carried the tradition of last century into this one. It inspired them to preserve the glamour, the grace of the old world, and to combine them with the new force, the graver purpose born of the revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.