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Examples
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Delobelle, Gardinois, "all the personages of 'Fromont' have lived,"
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868
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I have read Fromont et Risler; I charge you to thank M. Daudet, to tell him that I spent the night in reading it and that I do not know whether I prefer Jack or Risler; it is interesting, I might almost say GRIPPING.
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Speaking of books, do read Fromont et Risler, by my friend
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Fromont is in the wrong; all the trouble follows from his original misconduct, when he refused to stand by
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The character of Fromont when the news of his opponent's death is brought to him comes out as something of a different value from the sheer barbarism of _Raoul de Cambrai_.
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The first page of _Le Petit Chose_ was written in the February of 1866, and was finished during the author's honeymoon, but it was with _Fromont
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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The tragedy of the feud continues after this; as before, Fromont is involved by his irrepressible kinsmen, and nothing comes of his good thoughts and intentions.
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The character of Fromont shows the true observation, as well as the inadequate and sketchy handling, of the French epic school.
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Fromont is different from the felons of his own household.
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The story is well told, fluently and clearly; it contains some fine expressions of heroic sentiment, and a good fight, as well as the ineffectual sorrows and good intentions of the anti-hero Fromont, with all the usual tissue of violence which goes along with a feud in heroic narrative, when the feud is regarded as something impersonal and fatal, outside the wishes of the agents in it.
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