[Gutenberg 41509] • The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (Louis XVII)
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- Authors
- Bazán, condesa de Emilia Pardo
- Tags
- 1785-1795 -- fiction , louis xvii , of france
- Date
- 2012-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.28 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt:
While Provençal literature blossomed in chivalric splendor along the northern shore of the Mediterranean and rare pastoral music in madrigals and roundelays rang through France and Italy, there sounded from the sea-girt province of Galicia wonderful songs which rivalled the sweetest strains of the troubadours, making kings to weep and warriors to smile, thrilling, by their wit and pathos and lyrical beauty, the brilliant courts of Castile and Leon.
It is an ethnographical phenomenon that, in Great Britain, France and Spain, the Celt has been pushed to the northwest. Galicia corresponds in position to Brittany and her people are characterized by the powerful imagination, infinite delicacy, concentration of feeling and devotion to nature which are the salient attributes of Gaelic and Cymric genius.