The base as you see consists of feet in flesh, the
entresol has the shoulders for its reel; and so on, the second, and the third story, the Cirque-Olympique alone arresting the height of the building." (36) The article describes the impressions of the performance on French audiences to attract more theatergoers in England.
This is the first book devoted entirely to the
Entresol, the name given to a group of intellectuals who first met in an
entresol, or a mezzanine apartment, rented by the abbe Alary on the place Vendome in 1724, and whose members included the marquis d'Argenson, Montesquieu, Bolingbroke and Ramsay.
Lebel, a servant woman who has lost all her sons and grandsons to the war, creates the only cleanliness and order Campton's life may be said to possess.(34) Paul Dastrey provides a "substitute for the background of domestic sympathy which, as a rule, would have simply bored or exasperated him" (9), and he admires Dastrey's "pleasant little
entresol full of Chinese lacquer and Venetian furniture" (186).