Gourmont
Americannoun
noun
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To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.
From Time Magazine Archive
He experiments with the Remy de Gourmont idea, though he probably never saw it in print.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
For De Gourmont the Darwinian notion that man is at the topmost notch of creation is as antique and absurd as most cosmogonies; indeed, it is the Asiatic egocentric idea of creation.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
De Gourmont writing of the persistence of Paganism in Catholicism, says that no religion ever dies but lives on in its successor.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
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