"from ""The Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde"" that Sim used as the basis for the Wilde portions of the story, showing the changes he made to make them fit into the fictional world of Estarcion, plus annotations. Melmoth (comics) Melmoth is the fifth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's ""Cerebus"" comic book series. It follows Oscar (a caricature of Oscar Wilde) in his last days leading up until his death, while Cerebus sits catatonic, clutching the doll of Jaka, the woman he loves but believes has been killed. The novel was collected as the sixth paperback ""phonebook"" collection in the"
"Charlotte Melmoth Mrs Charlotte Melmoth (c. 1749 – 1823) was an 18th-century English actress, the estranged 'wife' of British actor/writer Samuel Jackson Pratt (""Courtney Melmoth""), and known as ""The Grande Dame of Tragedy on the Early American Stage"" After a mildly-successful stage career in Great Britain and Ireland she emigrated to America in 1793 and became one of the best-known actresses of the late 18th/early 19th century. Little is known of Charlotte's early years; she may have been an English farmer's daughter. Her real name is uncertain. She first came to the attention of the British public in the late"
"the first document that records his new identity. He identified as """"Antoine de Lamothe, écuyer, sieur de Cadillac"""", and signed as """"De Lamothe Launay"""". Like many immigrants, he took advantage of emigrating to the New World to create a new identity, perhaps to conceal the reasons that drove him from France. This new identity """"ne sort pas de son sac"""" (""I did not create this identity out of nowhere""), as he wrote later. Antoine Laumet likely remembered Sylvestre d'Esparbes de Lussan de Gout, baron of Lamothe-Bardigues, lord of Cadillac, Launay and Le Moutet; adviser to the Parliament of Toulouse. He"
"reportedly spending 15 days hiding in a wood on the way. His escape from France was masterminded by Elizabeth's counselor William Cecil and the English ambassador in Paris, Nicolas Throckmorton. He went first to Geneva, then to Zurich where he was the guest of Peter Martyr, and then to Lausanne. There he met Thomas Randolph (alias Barnaby), and they travelled incognito to England via Flanders. In London he stayed at Cecil's Westminster home. He had an interview with the Queen herself in the garden at Hampton Court. At the end of June 1559, Throckmorton wrote to Cecil describing how James"
"18th century, as ""Mrs Courtney Melmoth"" part of an acting duo with her supposed husband, Samuel Jackson Pratt who used the stage name ""Courtney Melmoth"". It is not known whether she adopted her husband's stage-surname ""Melmoth"" or, as has been speculated, ""Melmoth"" was her real surname and Pratt adopted it as his own stage name. Most biographers give her year of birth as 1749, the same as Pratt's. However this would put her in her twenties in the early 1770s, when she first met Pratt, in contradiction of another biographer's claim that she was still at school when this meeting"
"maiden name was Blanche Falkenberg. Jacques Seligmann Jacques (Jacob) Seligmann (18 September 1858, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 30 October 1923, in Paris) was a highly successful antiquarian and art dealer with businesses in both Paris and New York. He was one of the first to foster American interest in building collections of European art. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Seligmann moved to Paris in 1874 where he worked for Paul Chevallier, an auctioneer, and Charles Mannheim, an art expert, before opening his own business on the Rue des Mathurins in 1880 with Edmond de Rothschild as one of his early clients. In"
"obituary said of her ""her talent, particularly in the higher walks of tragedy, was very generally acknowledged. She was much esteemed for her excellent private character."" Charlotte Melmoth Mrs Charlotte Melmoth (c. 1749 – 1823) was an 18th-century English actress, the estranged 'wife' of British actor/writer Samuel Jackson Pratt (""Courtney Melmoth""), and known as ""The Grande Dame of Tragedy on the Early American Stage"" After a mildly-successful stage career in Great Britain and Ireland she emigrated to America in 1793 and became one of the best-known actresses of the late 18th/early 19th century. Little is known of Charlotte's early years;"
"the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English. In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique"
"1773 had become entangled in a scandalous love affair and left the church to become an actor under the stage name 'Courtney Melmoth"" Some time in the early 1770s, Pratt entered into a marital-like relationship with a lady who thereafter referred to herself as ""Mrs Charlotte Melmoth"" (Melmoth being Pratt's stage-name). Her maiden name is unknown. According to ""A History of The City of Brooklyn"", Charlotte ""had been duped into a sham marriage, while at boarding school, by a Mr. Pratt (known in the literary and theatrical circles of that day as Courtney Melmoth ), and with him went upon"
"Jean-Pierre Melville Jean-Pierre Melville (; born Jean-Pierre Grumbach; 20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973) was a French filmmaker. While with the French Resistance during World War II, he adopted the nom de guerre Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. Spiritual father of the French New Wave, he influenced the new generation of filmmakers in Asia (John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, etc) and in America (Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin). Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born in 1917 in Paris, France, the son"
"Soho, London. On arrival in UK the Messina brothers took up English names. Eugenio became Edward Marshal, Carmelo became Charles Maitland, Alfredo became Alfred Martin, Salvatore became Arthur Evans and Atillio became Raymond Maynard. Properties were bought throughout the West End and businesses set up. They quickly became involved in their father's former trade and, during the years following the Second World War, imported women from Belgium, France and Spain. With a steady and highly profitable prostitution operation and adequate protection from members of the Metropolitan Police, the Messinas ran unchecked in the city. By the late 1940s they were"
"Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo (; born 9 April 1933) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His best known credits include ""Breathless"" (1960) and ""That Man from Rio"" (1964). Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, now Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris. Belmondo's father, Paul Belmondo, was a ""Pied-Noir"" sculptor who was born in Algeria of Italian descent, whose parents were of Sicilian and Piedmontese origin. As a boy he was more interested in sport than school, developing a particular interest in"
"Georges Belmont Georges Belmont, born Georges Pelorson (19 July 1909 – 26 December 2008), was a French writer and literary translator. His translations from English to French included the work of Evelyn Waugh, Henry James, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess and Erica Jong into French. He also wrote ten novels and poetry collections, and worked as a journalist, founding the glossy celebrity magazine ""Jours de France"". Georges Pelorson was born in Belley, Bugey, the child of teachers. Educated at the ENS, he came to know Robert Brasillach, Thierry Maulnier, Samuel Beckett, André Gide and Jean Paulhan. He befriended Henry"
"the same year he briefly contributed to a few Romanian Surrealist revues. In 1930, he moved to France and, thanks to a fake ID, changed his name from Herold Blumer (his birth name) to Jacques Hérold. He settled in Paris, where he maintained a close friendship with Constantin Brâncuși, for whom he also worked as a chef or even secretary. He also met Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, thanks to whom Hérold was allowed in Breton's group, participating at games and contributing with paintings that were held in high esteem by the likes of Raoul Ubac or Andre Breton himself. After"
"then held a press conference announcing that his name was now Shlomo Ben-Chaim. He made various claims regarding his disappearance, including that he had been kidnapped and held in France for a month, that he had escaped from Britain disguised as an admiral, and then as a military officer who became a passenger on a British destroyer. His lawyer, Max Seligman, said he was a ""psychological case"". Sometime later in 1949, Stanley returned to France with some thoughts of re-establishing himself in business, but moved back to Israel in 1950, where he spent the remainder of his life in obscurity,"
"life, he turned to religious subjects, but Stewart is best remembered for his Belle Époque society portraits and sensuous nudes. Julius LeBlanc Stewart Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed ""the Parisian from Philadelphia"". His father, the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Paris in 1865, and became a distinguished art collector and an early patron of Marià Fortuny and the Barbizon artists. Julius studied"
"Antoine Blanchard Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the French painter Marcel Masson (15 November 1910 – 1988) painted his immensely popular Parisian street scenes. He was born in a small village near the banks of the Loire. Blanchard received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany. He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Prix de Rome. Like Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris"
"The Belmonts The Belmonts are an American doo-wop group from the Bronx, New York, that originated in the mid-1950s. The original group consisted of Angelo D'Aleo (born February 3, 1940), Carlo Mastrangelo (October 5, 1937 – April 4, 2016), and Fred Milano (August 26, 1939 – January 1, 2012). They took their name from Belmont, the Bronx neighborhood in which they lived, known as the Little Italy of the Bronx. There were several stages in their history, including the 1958–1960 period with Dion DiMucci, when the group was named Dion and the Belmonts. At this time Mastrangelo sang the bass"
"talk on behalf of POWs and calling ""la relève"" a """"con"""" (i.e., something stupid). Mitterrand avoided arrest as Piatzook covered his escape. In November 1943 the ""Sicherheitsdienst"" (SD) raided a flat in Vichy, where they hoped to arrest François Morland, a member of the resistance. ""Morland"" was Mitterrand's cover name. He also used Purgon, Monnier, Laroche, Captain François, Arnaud et Albre as cover names. The man they arrested was Pol Pilven, a member of the resistance who was to survive the war in a concentration camp. Mitterrand was in Paris at the time. Warned by his friends, he escaped to"
"actions became known, he earned the gratitude of the French people who referred to him as ""the little Frenchman"" and the ""Bordeaux Choltitz""—a reference to Dietrich von Choltitz, who disobeyed Adolf Hitler's order to raze Paris if it was threatened by Allied forces. He adopted the French name, Henri Salmide, became a naturalized French citizen in 1947, married a French woman, Henriette Buison, and lived in Bordeaux for the rest of his life. He worked as a firefighter in Bordeaux's port fire brigade for more than 30 years. In 2000, Salmide became a Knight of the French Légion d'Honneur. Salmide"
"Melchior de Lisle Melchior de Lisle (1908-16 August 1977) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera Lucanidae. A biography was written by Jean-Pierre Lacroix In 1933 he marries Christiane Frommer who will hold in Paris a renowned music lounge. He was a technician of value, an alumnus of the École polytechnique. In Cameroon he manages works of infrastructure (bridges), on returning to Paris he is a headmaster of an engineering school. He is an excellent pianist. During his stay in Cameroon, he is interested in cetonids, the customs of which he observes and he describes new forms or new"
"and Francesca. Gervase Helwys Sir Gervase Helwys (1 September 1561 – 20 November 1615), also known as Jervis Yelwys, was a Lieutenant of the Tower of London found guilty of complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury and hanged in 1615. The scandal provoked much public and literary conjecture and irreparably tarnished King James I's court with an image of corruption and depravity. There are variations in the spelling of Helwys: Helwis, Helwiss, Helewyse, Helwysse, Yelwys, Ellowis, Elwys, Elwis, Elvis, Elwes, and Elwaies. Gervase Helwys was born on 1 September 1561 in Saundby, Nottinghamshire, the first child of parents"
"of Berthe and Jules Grumbach. His family were Alsatian Jews. After the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Grumbach entered the French Resistance to oppose the German Nazis who occupied the country. He adopted the nom de guerre Melville after the American author Herman Melville, a favorite of his. Melville fought in Operation Dragoon. When he returned from the war, he applied for a license to become an assistant director but was refused. Without this support, he decided to direct his films by his own means, and continued to use Melville as his stage name. He became"
"James was not eligible to succeed to the English or Scottish thrones, though there were rumours that Charles and Lucy did marry secretly. Monmouth later himself always claimed his parents were married and that he possessed their marriage lines, but he never produced them. Charles, as King, later testified in writing to his Council that he had never been married to anyone except his queen, Catherine of Braganza. In March 1658, young James was kidnapped by one of the King's men, sent to Paris, and placed in the care of the Crofts baronets, whose surname he took. He briefly attended"
"the existence of a baptismal record of 9 October 1633 in the parish of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, in which Montdory's wife, Marie Berthelin, served as godmother and her husband's name is given as Guillaume Gilbert, S de Mondory. Authors consistently wrote his pseudonym as Mondory or Mondori until 1925, when J. Fransen discovered that he himself signed it Montdory. He is first recorded as an actor on 31 March 1612 under the name Gilleberts ""called Mondaury"" in an act of association of a troupe organized by Valleran le Conte. Montdory was only eighteen and not yet a fully formed actor, since"
"Jean Louis Conneau Jean Louis Conneau (8 Feb 1880 Lodève, Hérault – 5 August 1937, Lodève), better known under the pseudonym André Beaumont, was a pioneer French aviator, Naval Lieutenant and Flying boat manufacturer. Conneau used the pseudonym ""Beaumont"" because, as a serving member of the French armed forces, he was not permitted to use his own name. He earned his French pilot's license on 7 December 1910 (#322), and his military pilot's license on 18 December 1911 (#4). In 1911 he won three of the toughest aeronautical tests: the 'Paris-Rome' race, the first ""Circuit d'Europe"" (Tour of Europe) (Paris-Liege-Spa-Utrecht-Brussels-Calais-London-Calais-Paris)"
"which he had been so carefully educated, in Paris, where he and his brother were put in charge of the ""dépôt"" of the family establishment at Mulhouse. He was thrown out of business by a commercial misfortune, and then he began to support himself by giving lessons in Chess at the ""Café de la Régence"". At the ""Café"", he was one of the leading players, but was known there only by the name of ""Mulhouse"" a nickname given to him, probably, by Saint-Amant. When St. Amant, began to frequent the ""Café de la Régence"", about the year 1823, he found"
"denied the identity of St Denis of Paris and St Denis the Areopagite (1641), caused a controversy. His ""Opera varia"", where this essay is to be found, as well as a description in Latin verse of his voyage from Paris to Rome in 1590, have appeared in 5 vols (1696; new ed. Venice, 1728). To him is attributed ""Elogio di cardinale Baronio"" (1607). Jacques Sirmond Jacques Sirmond (12 or 22 October 1559 – 7 October 1651) was a French scholar and Jesuit. Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom; having been a"
"the French at the siege of Leith in May 1560. Throckmorton described Ninian’s rewards as an officer of the Scots Guard. He was a gentleman archer with a salary of 800 Francs, and was lord of the manor of Themis (or Captain of Feismes Castle) with an income of another 800 Francs. As an officer of the Guard, he commanded a company of 100 horsemen. Usefully, Ninian’s wife, Elizabeth Kemp, was an attendant in the Privy Chamber of Mary, Queen of Scots in France. Throckmorton wanted Ninian to assume the name ""Beaumont,"" and thereafter he continued to sign his letters"
"from a family of royal office holders (nobles of the robe), which partly explains his wealth. He was reputed to speak English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and several oriental languages, including Arabic and Turkish. Thévenot's baptismal name was Nicolas, Melchisédech being added as the second (confirmation) name, almost certainly in honour of his maternal grandfather, Melchisédech Garnier (d. 1637), an ""avocat"" at the Parlement of Paris, and probably a Huguenot (given the Old Testament name). Thévenot was an amateur scientist and patron of many scientists and mathematicians, maintaining correspondence with figures like Jan Swammerdam, whom he encouraged to tackle the origin"
"the city by referring to Marie Antoinette's rumoured relationship with the Princesse de Lamballe. Brockett next introduces Stephen to Valérie Seymour, who – like her prototype, Natalie Clifford Barney – is the hostess of a literary salon, many of whose guests are lesbians and gay men. Immediately after this meeting Stephen announces she has decided to settle in Paris at 35 Rue Jacob (purchased at Seymour's recommendation), with its temple in a corner of an overgrown garden. Barney lived and held her salon at 20 Rue Jacob. Stephen is wary of Valérie, and does not visit her salon until after"
"Marcelle Dormoy Marcelle Dormoy (1895–1976) was a French couture fashion designer active from the 1910s to 1950, and a former model. Dormoy was born Marie-Léonie Graftieaux, but changed her name to Marcelle Dormoy in 1916 soon after the birth of her son Pierre-Edouard. Graftieaux started out as a mannequin for Paul Poiret, which she credited with helping her learn to ""understand the female body."" At this time, her grandson has claimed, Graftieaux met Edward, Prince of Wales, probably at Luna Park, Paris and he may have fathered her son. Pierre-Edouard's birth was registered over a year after the event, and"
"York, from appendicitis. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. His mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is an exact replica of the Chapel of St. Hubert at Château d'Amboise in France and features a set of Renaissance-inspired painted glass windows designed by artist Helen Maitland Armstrong. His second wife, Alva Belmont, was buried alongside him after her death in 1933. Oliver Belmont Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (November 12, 1858 – June 10, 1908) was an American socialite and United States Representative from New York. Belmont was a member of the banking firm of August Belmont and"