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Alceste judged most social behavior as hypocritical. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] See : Hypocrisy Alceste antisocial hero. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] See : Misanthropy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In 1816, two Royal Navy vessels, the Alceste and the Lyra, had
borne a part of Lord Amherst's mission to the imperial court at
Peking. ); ``Gluck: Alceste,'' John
Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Paul Groves and Anne Sofie von Otter; Martha
de Francisco, producer (Monteverdi Cho. By giving each of her women a timeless, human, rather than feminine,
attribute in the title of each essay ("Simone or Asceticism"
for Simone Weil, contrasted with "Simone or Greed" for Simone
de Beauvoir, just as Moliere entitled his play Alceste ou Le
Misanthrope), Ozouf means to insist on the universal import of their
life stories. |
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