Emmanuel des Essarts Quotes

France, Poet
March 5, 1839 – October, 17, 1909.

Emmanuel-Adolphe Langlois des Essarts was a French poet and man of letters. Emmanuel des Essarts was born on 5 February 1839 in Paris, France. His father, Alfred Stanislas Langlois Des Essarts , was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation. The son was educated at the École Normale Supérieure.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

Emmanuel des Essarts
Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

Emmanuel des Essarts

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

Emmanuel des Essarts