Sublime

the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

they had a formidable professor, Lucien Ferrero, who must have one of the most experienced and knowledgeable noses in France, and who has personally created more than two thousand perfumes. He had come from Grasse to take the class through its paces, to train young noses in good habits, and, with a little luck, to discover talent that could be deve

Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to

Villandreux possédait la fortune mais se sentait bien pauvre face à l’érudition et au vocabulaire efflorescent de son employé. Et si celui-ci jouait magistralement du verbe, il n’avait, en revanche, pas un sou vaillant au point qu’il était souvent obligé de participer à l’humiliante cérémonie de la « petite caisse ».

he remained as simple as on the first day. He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in solitude. He spoke to but