Voiture

If I write an occasional ballade, it is for the mere pleasure of writing, and not because I seek notoriety such as Voiture enjoyed when in favor. "

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

His Voiture Minimum 'minimal car' was, like many of his projects, meant to place high ­design in service of the masses.

Photo-Op: Wheels of Dreams 2011

In tracing the origins and legacy of this project, 'Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile' MIT Press, 350 pages, $49.95 by Antonio Amado is less the history of a single car than of an entire ­century of car design.

Photo-Op: Wheels of Dreams 2011

It is interesting, in view of the alias supplied by Blowitz for Flashman in Berlin five years earlier, that on the Orient Express Blowitz shared Voiture 151 with a Dutchman named Janszen.

Watershed 2010

Les émissions de CO2 pour cet itinéraire sont estimées à: Transports en commun : 68 g CO2 Voiture: 4213 g CO2″

Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Voiture, who possessed an easy and trifling turn of mind, was the first who shone in this aurora of French literature.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Voiture existed at a time when we were first emerging from literary ignorance, and when wit was aimed at, but scarcely attained.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Voiture, in his thirty-fifth letter to Costar, compliments the musical atom of Marini, the feathered voice, the living breath clothed in plumage, the winged song, the small spirit of harmony, hidden amidst diminutive lungs; all of which terms are employed to convey the word nightingale:

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I thought this was often the case with Voiture; his best letters are studied; you feel that he is fatiguing himself to find that which presents itself so naturally to Count Anthony Hamilton, to Madame de Sévigné, and to so many other women, who write these trifles without an effort, better than Voiture wrote them with labor.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Mademoiselle Paulet of gallantry, without dreaming that Voiture by no means exhibits a correct taste in the species of composition in which he was esteemed excellent; for he often takes the false for the refined, and the affected for the natural.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007