Remy De Gourmont: 3 books

When, more than ten years ago, I wrote the first article on Remy de Gourmont which, so far as I know, appeared in America—North America, bien entendu, for the author of La Culture des Idées and Le Chemin de Velours was already well known and admired in such South American literary capitals as Rio...

Les Épilogues de R. de Gourmont sont un ensemble de quatre livres, de la première à la quatrième série, portant le sous-titre de Réflexions sur la vie, publiés de 1903 à 1913. Il s'agit donc de chroniques, de pensées, assez brèves, venues à l'auteur à propos des événements qu'il rencontre...

They walked side by side, under the gloomy old firs whose heavy branches leaned towards the yellowing lawn. Countess Aubry, with her charm of a negotiator of worldly loves, had just hastily brought them together, as though they were predestined for each other. They were slightly acquainted already....