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She indeed published her "Adieux to the Muses;" but it was soon discovered that all the verses of this lady, including her "Adieux," were the compositions of her husband.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Simone de Beauvoir, between Hegel and Heidegger; from Wartime Diary, yet another volume of diaries, beyond the four published in her lifetime Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance, and All Said and Done and the posthumously published Diary of a Philosophy Student and Adieux.
Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008
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Ultimately, I prefer Wilhelm Backhaus in Les Adieux, largely for the same reasons I prefer Backhaus in a lot of cases, though not all Pollini's Hammerklavier, for example, has made pretty significant inroads with me, coming abreast of Gould, but not quite trumping yet but Schiff makes a convincing case for his interpretation.
Archive 2008-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008
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Simone de Beauvoir, between Hegel and Heidegger; from Wartime Diary, yet another volume of diaries, beyond the four published in her lifetime Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance, and All Said and Done and the posthumously published Diary of a Philosophy Student and Adieux.
enowning enowning 2008
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Ultimately, I prefer Wilhelm Backhaus in Les Adieux, largely for the same reasons I prefer Backhaus in a lot of cases, though not all Pollini's Hammerklavier, for example, has made pretty significant inroads with me, coming abreast of Gould, but not quite trumping yet but Schiff makes a convincing case for his interpretation.
So I've heard (July 2008) Patrick J. Smith 2008
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Les Adieux D'Hector et D'Andromaque, in which the Passions were strongly marked.
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-- Isolde signals to her lover with her white scarf to music redolent of Weber's _Oberon_, and of the transition to the final movement of Beethoven's sonata _Les Adieux_.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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It is also called the Cour des Adieux, because here Napoleon I., forsaken by nearly all his generals, took leave, on the 20th of April 1814, of the ever-faithful soldiers of his Old Guard, from whom he tore himself away amidst sobs and tears, and threw himself into his carriage.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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The principal entrance to the palace opens out from the Place Solferino and gives access immediately to the Cour du Cheval Blanc of Chambiges, which, since that eventful day in Napoleonic history nearly a hundred years ago, has become better known as the Cour des Adieux.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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Three poets and authors of the theatre of the Vaudevilles, Barrel, Radet, and Desfontaines, each received two hundred napoleons d'or for their common production of a ballad, called "Des Adieux d'un Grenadier au Camp de Boulogne."
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