#quentin durward

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Quentin Durward and Louis XI by Louis Ricquier.

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Heorhiy Malakov`s illustration to Quentin Durward by Walter Scott, 1972

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Grace Kelly poses holding a movie magazine on the set of The Swan in 1955. A closer look reveals Kay Kendall and Robert Taylor on the periodical’s cover in a promotional still for The Adventures of Quentin Durward. MGM had attempted to force Grace to take the part of Isabelle (which ultimately went to Kendall,) but she found the role “boring” and refused.

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The moon, which had now extricated herself from the clouds through which she was formerly wading, shed a full sea of glorious light upon a landscape equally glorious. They saw the princely Loire rolling his majestic tide through the richest plain in France, and sweeping along between banks ornamented with towers and terraces, and with olives and vineyards. They saw the walls of the city of Tours, the ancient capital of Touraine, raising their portal towers and embattlements white in the moonlight, while, from within their circle, rose the immense Gothic mass which the devotion of the sainted Bishop Perpetuus erected as early as the fifth century, and which the zeal of Charlemagne and his successors had enlarged with such architectural splendour, as rendered it the most magnificent church in France. The towers of the church of Saint Gatien were also visible, and the gloomy strength of the Castle, which was said to have been, in ancient times, the residence of the Emperor Valentinian.

Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

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Meantime, there was no fear of his again slumbering on his post. Each passing breath of wind, which, finding its way through the open lattice, waved the old arras, sounded like the approach of the fair object of his expectation. He felt, in short, all that mysterious anxiety, and eagerness of expectation, which is always the companion of love, and sometimes hath a considerable share in creating it.

Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

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Janvier 1966

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Quentin Durward est un roman historique écrit par l'écrivain écossais Sir Walter Scott.