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    Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane [listwaʁ də ʒil blɑ də sɑ̃tijan]) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715...
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    Gil Blas (or Le Gil Blas) was a Parisian literary periodical named for Alain-René Lesage's novel Gil Blas. It was founded by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre...
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  • "Jadis", Gil Blas, 30 October 1883. Originally published in a different form under the alternative title, then revised and published in Gil Blas, 17 April...
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  • The Adventures of Gil Blas (French: Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane, Spanish: Una aventura de Gil Blas) is a 1956 French–Spanish adventure film...
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  • The 1896 version of La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) is a lost film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (then known as Alice Guy) that, according...
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    Diable boiteux), his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735). Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united...
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  • Gil Blas is a 1751 comedy play by the British writer Edward Moore. It is based on the novel Gil Blas by French writer Alain-René Lesage. The original Drury...
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    Braque's 1908 Houses at L’Estaque (and related works) prompted Vauxcelles, in Gil Blas, 25 March 1909, to refer to bizarreries cubiques (cubic oddities). Gertrude...
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    Press, p. 13, ISBN 1-55859-025-0. Vauxcelles, Louis. [2], Gil Blas, Supplément à Gil Blas du 17 octobre 1905, p.8, col.1, Salle VII (end). Retrieved...
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    Lisa with a spoon) by art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the front page of Gil Blas. André Salmon subsequently described the painting as "The Mona Lisa of...
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    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Vauxcelles, Louis. [1], Gil Blas, Supplément à Gil Blas du 17 octobre 1905, p.8, col.1, Salle VII (end). Retrieved...
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    the Grand Palais. Vauxcelles’ comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil Blas, a daily newspaper, and the term Fauvism passed into popular usage for...
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    effect tending toward the abstract that escapes me completely. (Vauxcelles, Gil Blas, 20 March 1907) Vauxcelles described the group of 'Fauves': A movement...
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    effect tending toward the abstract that escapes me completely. (Vauxcelles, Gil Blas, 20 March 1907) Blue Nude would later create a sensation at the Armory...
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    Au Bonheur des Dames (category Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical))
    Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas from December 17, 1882 to March 1, 1883; and published in novel form by...
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    The Horla (category Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical))
    Maupassant, after an initial (much shorter) version published in the newspaper Gil Blas, October 26, 1886. The story has been cited as an inspiration for Lovecraft's...
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    Germinal (novel) (category Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical))
    first serialized between November 1884 and February 1885 in the periodical Gil Blas, then in March 1885 published as a book. The title (pronounced [ʒɛʁminal])...
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    Freimann-Sammlung / Der jüdische Gil Blas. 1834. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) Kohn, J. S., Der jüdische Gil Blas, Leipzig, 1834, p.20 Byron L....
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    first novel written by Guy de Maupassant. It was serialised in 1883 in the Gil Blas, then published in book form the same year as L'Humble Vérité. It was the...
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    pejorative used. Vauxcelles' comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil Blas, a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage. The pictures gained...
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    titled The Taster. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles in a literary newspaper Gil Blas, 30 September 1911, referred to Le goûter sarcastically as "la Joconde...
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    Vauxcelles' comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in the daily newspaper Gil Blas, and passed into popular usage. Although the pictures were widely derided—"A...
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    all the stories in Histoires désobligeantes were originally published in Gil Blas; the date given after the French title refers to the issue in which the...
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    14. ISBN 0714832502 "Gil Blas / dir. A. Dumont". Gallica. November 14, 1908. Louis Vauxcelles, Le Salon des Indépendants, Gil Blas, 25 March 1909, Gallica...
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    L'Argent (category Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical))
    Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in November 1890 before being published in novel form by Charpentier...
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    by Guy de Maupassant La Parure, illustration of the title page of the Gil Blas, 9 September Original title La Parure Country France Genre(s) Short story...
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    Camoin and Jean Metzinger. This exhibition was reviewed by Vauxcelles in Gil Blas on 4, 18 and 23 March 1905. Matisse exhibited the proto-Fauve painting...
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    a stream". The Adventures of Roderick Random was modelled on Le Sage's Gil Blas and despite its scandalous content covering 'snobbery, prostitution, debt...
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    five-act opéra comique Gil Blas with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré based on Alain-René Lesage's novel Gil Blas de Santillane. Delphine...
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    Silverlock by John Myers Myers, the character Lucius Gil Jones is a composite of Lucius, Gil Blas in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage, and Tom Jones in The History...
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