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Gautier

[ goh-tyey ]

noun

  1. Thé·o·phile [tey-aw-, feel], 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic.


Gautier

/ ɡotje /

noun

  1. GautierThéophile18111872MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: novelistWRITING: critic Théophile (teɔfil). 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic. His early extravagant romanticism gave way to a preoccupation with poetic form and expression that anticipated the Parnassians


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The protagonists Bernier and Gautier have a duel that again occupies an adrenaline-defying amount of time.

Still he carries on, sustaining yet another horrendous blow from Gautier that removes six inches of flesh from his shoulder.

They begin with a joust where Gautier pierces Bernier with his lance between his ribs.

“A lot of members on the council speak about assisting various areas like Anacostia but very few have ever visited,” said Gautier.

“François is to cosmetics what Jean Paul Gautier or John Galliano are to fashion,” says Isabella Rossellini.

And in spite of myself I began to feel melancholy over the fate of Marguerite Gautier.

Now, this Demoiselle Gautier, it appears she lived a bit free, if you'll excuse my saying so.

Gautier, above all his contemporaries, was of precisely the temper of mind to appreciate Charles Baudelaire.

The attempt to say it may seem presumptuous, and I am certain that no single word of Gautier could be altered or improved upon.

Writers and readers of to-day must necessarily look at Baudelaire with very different eyes from those of Gautier.

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