Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

I gaped at her.

By 1562 the find was already included in the set of engravings for Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (" Mirror of Rome's Magnificence ") and connoisseurs, artists and tourists gaped at the original, which stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese, protected under the arcade.

" She added in a 1952 interview that she didn't like " the way men visitors gaped at it all day long ".

Goldbug and his two companions gaped in awe at the transformed Metroplex, who declared his own position compromised and announced that he was going to leave and hide again.

The peasants also wanted him to eat of the meat, but he only gaped over the handle of the cauldron and held a linen cloth between his mouth and the meat.

The mouth gaped, but no coherent words issued -- only a high-pitched tittering.

Feebly he pointed an accusing finger at Madame Lalaurie and shouted: `` Evil woman!!

Guests stared with horror at Madame Lalaurie and made speedy departures.

Madame Armfeldt is surprised, ruefully noting that she rejected love for material wealth at Fredrika's age.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

In his letter to Madame de Francueil in 1751, he first pretended that he wasn't rich enough to raise his children but in book IX of the confessions, he gave the true reasons of his choice: " I trembled at the thought of intrusting them to a family ill brought up, to be still worse educated.

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

But the images of Brando posing with his Triumph motorcycle became iconic, even forming the basis of his wax dummy at Madame Tussauds.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference, 25 November 1943

In July 1808 he left Paris and spent the autumn and winter in Switzerland as the guest of Madame de Staël at Coppet, in the midst of her circle of wits.

Still, the evidence of literary works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for thousands of years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre ; the name " fairy tale " was first ascribed to them by Madame d ' Aulnoy in the late 17th century.

Described at her birth as " a small, but completely healthy Archduchess ", she was also known at the Austrian court as Antonia, but more often as Madame Antoine, since French was commonly spoken in the Hofburg.

Later, she met the rest of the family, including her husband's youngest sister, Madame Élisabeth, who at the end of Marie Antoinette's life would become her closest and most loyal friend.

Her relationship with the comtesse du Barry was one which was important to rectify, at least on the surface, because Madame du Barry was the mistress of Louis XV, and thus had considerable political influence over the king.

Others taken into her confidence at this time included her husband's brother, the comte d ' Artois ; their youngest sister, Madame Élisabeth ; her sister-in-law, the comtesse de Provence ; and Christoph Willibald Gluck, her former music teacher, whom she took under her patronage upon his arrival in France.

Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, given the honorific title at birth of Madame Royale, was finally born at Versailles, after a particularly difficult labour, on 19 December 1778, following an ordeal where the queen literally collapsed from suffocation and hemorrhaging.

The last of his important portrait paintings date from this period: Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier, Seated ( 1856 ), Self-Portrait at the Age of Seventy-nine and Madame J .- A .- D. Ingres, née Delphine Ramel, both completed in 1859.

Madame Chen taught Zhou to read and write at an early age, and Zhou later claimed to have read the famous vernacular novel Xiyouji at the age of six.

Sand was born in Paris but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry ( See House of George Sand ).

Delphine Lalaurie took the reins in her gloved hands and drove Dandy Brandon -- cowering in the back seat of the carriage -- to her mansion at 677 Perdido Street.

Dr. Louis Lalaurie stood on the veranda at the head of the driveway and watched his carriage as it approached the pillared mansion.

Miriam sniffed at this, and complained that Wright had said unkind things about her to reporters.

Marx said, " Our newspaper has to be presented to the police to be sniffed at, and if the police nose smells anything un-Christian or un-Prussian, the newspaper is not allowed to appear.

She growled, barked, walked on all fours and crouched like a wild dog, sniffed at her food before she ate it, and was found to have acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell and sight.

The two youths arrived at Corll's house and sniffed paint fumes and drank alcohol until midnight before leaving the house to purchase sandwiches.

Originally it was a made-for-TV movie, and as a promotional gimmick Fox distributed a series of scratch and sniff cards to be sniffed at certain points.

" Craig MacInnis of Hamilton Spectator said " to Make You Happy " verge on the sort of boy-worshipping dreck that even Tiffany would have sniffed at.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

`` Well '', he began, `` It seems like some people in Paris want to hear more from me than those fellers over at the conference house do.

The bitter memory of Russia's exclusion from the Paris Peace Conference and of the West's effort to stamp out Bolshevism at its birth boiled up within him.

They would not be pleased to have it published back home that they planned a frolic in Paris or Hong Kong at the Treasury's expense.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

`` Cathy was in tears, of course, and I heard Myra say, ' Now be good, and at Christmastime I'll send you a wonderful present from Paris ' ''.

Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway ; and artist Pablo Picasso.

Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

The Annales was founded and edited by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, while they were teaching at the University of Strasbourg and later in Paris.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.