Polignac

Polignac, the self-made portrait painter Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun.

Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author 2010

Then Gil Shaham, playing the long, slim 1699 "Princess de Polignac" Stradivarius, characteristics not visible to the eye from a distance but known to be a feature of this instrument, was the sensitive soloist in Barber's song-like violin concerto.

BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010

We have awarded to Mr James Stephens the Polignac prize because of his book, The Crock of Gold.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Madame de Polignac had by that time become Marie-Antoinette's best friend, a friendship encouraged by Louis XVI, since Madame de Poliganc had a calming and steadying influence upon the highstrung and easily distracted Queen.

Madame de Guéménée elena maria vidal 2009

On a curious side point, the way Vivien Leigh looks in this beautiful picture is always how I imagined Madame de Polignac to look in her heyday.

That Hamilton Woman (1941) elena maria vidal 2009

My hero the Princess de Polignac commissioned this piece so that Poulenc and Février would play together again.

Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Count Mercy was more concerned with the Polignac clan and their influence on both the King and Queen.

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers.

Les Miserables 2008

Bess on Marie Antoinette and Polignac skip to main

Oh no she DIDN'T! Bess on Marie Antoinette and Polignac Heather Carroll 2008

Cardinal Polignac at a conclave: his steward, tired of having never been able to make him pass his accounts, took a journey to Rome, and went to the small window of his cell, laden with an immense bundle of papers; he read for nearly two hours; at last, finding that no answer was made, he thrust forward his head: the cardinal had been gone almost two hours.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007