Saint-Victor

ABSOLUTELY; but I wonder that Saint-Victor who has preached it so much and has criticised my plays because they were not IMPERSONAL, should abandon you instead of defending you.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

You have not seen the reverence of Saint-Victor for la Paiva.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

Her husband, instead of following her, sent to Saint-Victor for some cigars, and smoked till daybreak, drinking kirsch-punch, a mixture unknown to the company.

Madame Bovary 2003

What do you think of my friend Saint-Victor, who has refused to write an article about it because he finds “the book bad”? you have not such a conscience as that, have you?

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

But when he reached the top of the hill he turned back, as he had turned once before on the road of Saint-Victor when he had parted from her.

Madame Bovary 2003

Prince Louis Napoleon in 1852, and as the modern has overgrown the classic and mediæval greatness of Marseilles, so the new "Majeure" has eclipsed, if it has not yet entirely replaced, the old Cathedral; and except the stern Abbey-church of Saint-Victor, an almost solitary relic of true mediæval greatness, it is the finest church of the city.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Saint-Victor, the eminent critic, has called these canvases "painted dreams;" and they cannot be better described.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

What do you think of my friend Saint-Victor, who has refused to write an article about it because he finds "the book bad"? you have not such a conscience as that, have you?

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

Saint-Victor, who puffs the books of Arsene Houssaye, won't write articles on mine, finding it too bad.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

ABSOLUTE IMPERSONALITY is debatable, and I do not accept it ABSOLUTELY; but I wonder that Saint-Victor who has preached it so much and has criticised my plays because they were not IMPERSONAL, should abandon you instead of defending you.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921