Fragonard. E-book. Formato EPUB Haldane Macfall   -  Haldane Macfall, 2015  - 

High up, amongst the Sea-Alps that stretch along the southern edge of France, where romantic Provence bathes her sunburnt feet in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, high on the mountain’s side hangs the steep little town of Grasse, embowered midst grey-green olive-trees. In as sombre a narrow street as there is in all her dark alleys, on the fifth day of April in the much bewigged and powdered year of 1732, there was born to a glovemaker of the town, worthy mercer Fragonard, a boy-child, whom the priest in the gloomy church christened Jean Honoré Fragonard.

Fragonard. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Haldane Macfall   -  Haldane Macfall, 2015  - 

High up, amongst the Sea-Alps that stretch along the southern edge of France, where romantic Provence bathes her sunburnt feet in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, high on the mountain’s side hangs the steep little town of Grasse, embowered midst grey-green olive-trees. In as sombre a narrow street as there is in all her dark alleys, on the fifth day of April in the much bewigged and powdered year of 1732, there was born to a glovemaker of the town, worthy mercer Fragonard, a boy-child, whom the priest in the gloomy church christened Jean Honoré Fragonard.

Vigée Le Brun. E-book. Formato PDF Haldane Macfall   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Yet he was to come near to the glory Of it -nearer than he thought. 'twas a pity that he was robbed of the splendour of basking in the re?ected radiance, and by a fish's bone. It was to have its beginning in that year after the indolent but obstinate king, having fallen foul of his Parliaments in his game Of facing-both-ways in the bitter strife 'twixt Church and people, patched up a peace with the Parliament men.