"Odeon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Theatre-Francais, a serious drama, which fell with all the honors of war amid salvos of thundering articles. In his youth he had once before appeared at the great and noble Theatre-Francais in a splendid romantic play of the style of "Pinto,"—a period when the classic reigned supreme. The Odeon was so violently agitated for three nights that the play was forbidden by the censor. This second piece was considered by many a masterpiece, and won him more real reputation than all his productive little pieces done with collaborators,—but only among a class to whom little attention ...
— A Daughter of Eve • Honore de Balzac
... tapping the newspaper in his hand, "how about this? It seems you have a new dancer at the Odeon, very beautiful, ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... o'clock; he gets more and more despondent, and is very depressed. He had heard that the Communards had commenced pillaging in the Quartier de l'Odeon, also that the Place Vendome was ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... Odeon, just before the beginning of the ball, are filled with students in costume; gladiators hobnob at the tables with savages in scanty attire—Roman soldiers and students, in the garb of the ancients, strut ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... place of sitting; but they were arrested or refused admittance by the armed force. Augereau announced to them that the directory, urged by the necessity of defending the republic from the conspirators among them, had assigned the Odeon and the School of Medicine for the place of their sittings. The greater part of the deputies present exclaimed against military violence and the dictatorial usurpation, but they were obliged ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet |
