| Show 4 great writers worked under odd conditions A new game for the students student of the history of literature writes the part parie correspondent of the london observer Is to examine the physical conditions under which famous writers dlo dia their work for some tobacco was indispensable verlaine Verl alne used to smoke almost incessantly so did francois coppee and huysmans was a great cigarette smoker both of these men also found the society of cats a lant to their inspiration as did theo paille gander and Rau delaire the and vigorous jean wh who 0 reproached paul bo bourget arget for or drinking noth nothing ing but water used to do twenty minutes of gymnastic exercise before sitting down to work and mistral could only write poetry after a sharp walk ernest renan used to stare into the palm of his band as if his bis ideas cams from there balzac who could eat with a gargantuan appetite when he had finished working needed the help neither of wine nor tobacco which he detested although lamartine falsely accused him of showing teeth blackened by the nicotine of cigars chateaubriand Chateau briand when he be dictated to his secretary used tp to walk barefoot up and down the coldi cold stone eton floor of his room |
