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Man about Paris

其他書名	The Confessions of Arsène Houssaye
出版	Morrow, 1970
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JU40AQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Arsene Houssaye, a man of all and many seasons, lived for eighty-one years of the 19th century, wrote in several genres including the six volumes of his "Confessions" from which these extracts have been chosen and translated. Mr. Knepler introduces him as an observer of great wit although it is subdued by the sea-and-time change. However one can meet through him most of the greats of the era from Chateaubriand to Victor Hugo, with Balzac, Lamartine, Ingres, Alfred de Musset, etc. in between. In his early years in Paris Houssaye lived with Gautier and Gerard de Nerval; Nerval's suicide is one of the more incisive pieces. Houssaye married, lost both a little girl and later his wife, and his best years were spent as Director of the Comedie Francaise, a position he filled with unfailing tact and success until 1859, when he was made inspector-general of works of art.