Kdo je hodil z Georgette Leblanc?

Georgette Leblanc (8 February 1869 – 27 October 1941) was a French operatic soprano, actress, author, and the sister of novelist Maurice Leblanc. She became particularly associated with the works of Jules Massenet and was an admired interpreter of the title role in Bizet's Carmen.

For many years Leblanc was the lover of Belgian playwright and writer Maurice Maeterlinck, and he wrote several parts for her within his stage plays. She portrayed the role of Ariane in Ariane et Barbe-bleue, both in the original 1899 stage play by Maeterlinck and in the 1907 opera adaptation by Paul Dukas, as well as La Mort de Tintagiles in 1905 in Paris. Leblanc also appeared in a couple of French films, most notably L'Inhumaine in 1924. In the last few decades of her life she turned to writing, producing two commercially successful autobiographies and several children's books and travelogues.

Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24, 1886 – October 19, 1973) was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.

A large collection of Anderson's papers on Gurdjieff's teaching is preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Maurice Maeterlinck (s polnim imenom grof Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck), belgijski pisatelj (iz Flandrije), dramatik in pesnik, * 29. avgust 1862, Gent, † 6. maj 1949, Nica.

Pisal je v francoščini in je večinoma objavljal v Franciji, kar ga uvršča med francoske avtorje. Je dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za literaturo leta 1911. Osrednje teme njegovega pisanja so: pomen življenja in smrt.

Izhajal je iz premožne francosko govoreče družine iz mesta Gent v flamskem delu Belgije. Pisal je že kot dijak in študent, vendar je večina teh zgodnjih del neobjavljena, avtor pa je rokopise sam pozeje uničil.

Po končanem študiju prava je preživel nekaj mesecev v Parizu, kjer se je srečal z nekaterimi člani novega simbolističnega gibanja v umetnosti. Med tedanjimi znanci je na Maeterlincka vplival zlasti Villiers de l'Isle Adam.

Leta 1889 je Maeterlinck nanadoma zaslovel s svojim prvim objavljenim dramskim delom La princesse Maleine (Kneginja Maleine). Za Maeterlinckov zgodnji uspeh so bile pomembne navdušujoče kritike Miraboja v časniku Le Figaro. V naslednjih letih je napisal vrsto simbolističnih iger, za katere sta značilna fatalizem in misticizem. Najodmevnejša dela tega obdobja so: L'Intruse (Vsiljivka, 1890), Les Aveugles (Slepci, 1890) and Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelej in Melisanda) (1892; slednja je bila večkrat uglasbena.

Največji sloves v svojem času je dosegel s pravljično igro Modra ptica (L'Oiseau Bleu) 1909). Po njej je bilo posnetih več filmov.

Leta 1926 je objavil knjigo Življenje termitov (La Vie des Termites), zaradi katere go obdolžujejo plagiata po delu južnoaftiškega znanstvenika in pisatelja Eugena Maraija (1871 - 1936) »The Soul of the White Ant« (Duša temitov).

Maeterlincku je naslov grofa podelil belgijski kralj Albert I leta 1932.

Pred nacizmom se je Maeterlinck umaknil v ZDA leta 1940. Za »New York Times« je izjavil: »Vem, da bi me nacisti takoj ustrelili, ker so me vedno šteli med sovražnike Nemčije zaradi moje igre Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde (Župan Stillemonda), v kateri sem opisal razmere v Belgiji med nemško okupacijo leta 1918.«

Po vojni se je vrnil v Francijo, v Nico in do konca življenja živel v gradu Orlamonde, ki si ga je kupil leta 1930.

Samuel Jean Pozzi (3 October 1846 – 13 June 1918) was a French surgeon and gynecologist. He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. He is remembered today for John Singer Sargent's portrait of him.

After studying medicine in Paris, Pozzi volunteered to be a medic during the Franco-Prussian War. He later specialized in gynecological and abdominal surgery, establishing the first Chair of Gynecology in Paris in 1884, and performing the first gastroenterostomy in France. Pozzi was elected to the French Academy of Medicine in 1896, and co-founded the Revue de gynécologie et de chirurgie abdominale in 1897.

His personal life was marked by a tumultuous marriage, multiple affairs, and cultural interests, including friendships with notable figures such as Sarah Bernhardt and Marcel Proust. In the political arena, Pozzi served as a senator for his hometown, Bergerac, and supported Alfred Dreyfus during his trial. He died in 1918, when a disgruntled patient fatally shot him.