“In the year 1769,” he began, with an almost audible roll of drums, “when the wicked and profligate Louis XV, goaded by his own guilty conscience and laden with the execrations of his subjects, was sinking into his grave, in the little island of Corsica, the most remarkable being ...
Neil (Mary) Hillstrom of Pennsylvania; eight sons, Leo and John of Milwaukee, Earl and Kenneth of Manitowoc, Paul and Louis of Valders; Richard of Whitelaw and Joseph of Reedsville; five brothers, William of Wayside, Edward of Reedsville, Louis of Milwaukee, John of Sheboygan and Alvin of ...
In the humanities he studied The Aeneid and Louis XVI, read Robinson Crusoe in French, translated Mme. de Sévigné into German, and wrote out in three languages maxims that echo what he had been taught on the other side of the Atlantic. “In all labor there is profit: but the talk of...
About September a contest between Bach and the famous French organist Louis Marchand was arranged at Dresden. The exact circumstances are not known, but Marchand avoided the contest by leaving Dresden a few hours before it should have taken place. By implication, Bach won. Perhaps this embolden...