Gallantry

Dizain des Fetes Galantes

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Gallantry, with the subtitle Dizain des Fêtes Galantes, is by James Branch Cabell, with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. The dedication to James Robinson Branch says that the volume treats of gallantry. A quoted epigraph speaks of persons half in masquerade, playing the drawing-room or garden comedy of life.

A proem headed The Age and a Product of It begins at a time when George the Second was permitting Ormskirk and the Pelhams to govern England. The proem places its beginning toward the end of March, in the year 1750, when Lady Allonby and her brother, Mr. Henry Heleigh, of Trevor's Folly, were the guests of Lord Rokesle, at Stornoway Crag, on Usk.

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James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author from Richmond, Virginia, best known for the elaborate fantasy cycle he called the Biography of the Life of Manuel. His ironic, ornate style won admirers including Mark Twain, and drew wide notoriety when Jurgen faced an obscenity trial.