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PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen name of SIBYLLE GABRIELLE See also:

MARIE

MARIE ANTOINETTE RIQUETI DE See also:

MIRABEAU, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (1850- ) See also:

French writer, who was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of Koetsal in the See also:

MORBIHAN

Morbihan. Her See also:

FATHER

father, who was the See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of the vicomte de Mirabeau and See also:

GREAT

great-See also:

NEPHEW

nephew of the orator, served in the Papal Zouaves, and died during the See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign of 186o. Her See also:

MOTHER

mother, the comtesse de Mirabeau, in addition to some graver compositions, contributed to the Figure and the See also:

Vie parisienne, under various pseudonyms, papers in the manner successfully See also:

DEVELOPED

developed by her daughter. Under the See also:

PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of " Gyp " Madame de Martel, who was married in 1869, sent to the Vie parisienne, and later to the Revue See also:

des deux mondes, a large number of social sketches and dialogues, afterwards reprinted in volumes. Her later See also:

WORK

work includes stories of a more formal sort, essentially differing but little from the shorter studies. The following See also:

list includes some of the best known of Madame de Martel's publications, nearly seventy in number: See also:

PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART

Petit Bob (1882); Autour du mariage (1883); Ce que femme veut (1883); Le Monde d cote (1884), Sans voiles (1885); Autour du See also:

DIVORCE

divorce (1886); Darts le See also:

TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train (1886) ; Mademoiselle Loulou (1888) ; Bob an See also:

SALON

salon (1888-1889) ; L'See also:

EDUCATION

Education d'un See also:

prince (189o) ; Passionette (1891); Ohel la grande vie (1891); Une See also:

Election a See also:

TIGRE

Tigre-sur-mer (18go), an See also:

account of " Gyp's " experiences in support of a Boulangist See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate; Mariage See also:

CIVIL

civil (1892); See also:

Ces bons docteurs (1892); Du haul en bas (1893); Mariage de chiffon (1894); Leurs See also:

Ames (1895); Le Cceur d'Ariane (1895); Le See also:

BONHEUR [MARIE ROSALIE], ROSA (1822-1899)

Bonheur de Gineite (1896); Totote (1897); Lune de miel (1898); See also:

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel (1898); L'Entrevue (1899); Le Pays des champs (1900); Trop de See also:

CHIC (a French word, either a shortened form of chicane, or derived from the Ger. Schick, tact or skill)

chic ('goo); Le Friquet (1901) La See also:

Fee (1902); Un Mariage chic (1903); Un See also:

MENAGE, GILLES (1613-1692)

Menage dernier cri (1903); Marian (1904); Le Cceur de Pierrette (1905). From the first " Gyp," See also:

writing of a society to which she belonged, displayed all the qualities which have given her a distinct, if not pre-eminent, position among writers of her class. Those qualities included an intense See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of observation, much skill in See also:

INNUENDO (Latin for " by nodding," from innuere, to indicate by nodding)

innuendo, a See also:

MORDANT

mordant wit combined with some breadth of See also:

HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, and a singular See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of animatingordinary dialogues without destroying the See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of reality. Her Parisian types of the spoiled See also:

child, of the precocious school-girl, of the See also:

young See also:

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride, and of various masculine figures in the See also:

gay See also:

WORLD

world, have become almost classical, and may probably survive as faithful pictures of luxurious See also:

MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners in the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. Some later productions, inspired by a violent See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-Semitic and Nationalist See also:

bias, deserve little See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration. An earlier See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to dramatize Autour du mariage was a failure, not owing to the audacities which it shares with most of its author's See also:

WORKS

works, but from lack of cohesion and incident. More successful was Mademoiselle See also:

Eve (1895), but indeed " Gyp's " successes are all achieved without a trace of dramatic faculty.

In 1901 Madame de Martel furnished a sensational incident in the Nationalist campaign during the municipal elections in See also:

Paris. She was said to have been the victim of a See also:

KIDNAPPING (from kid, a slang term for a child, and nap or nab, to steal)

kidnapping See also:

OUTRAGE (through O. Fr. ultrage, oltrage, oultrage, from Lat. ultra, beyond, exceeding, cf. Ital. oltraggio; the meaning has been influenced by connexion with " rage," anger)

outrage or piece of horseplay provoked by her See also:

POLITICAL

political attitude, but though a most circumstantial account of the outrages committed on her and of her adventurous See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape was published, the affair was never clearly explained or verified.

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