Abused as a child by his parents, he went on to illustrate the internationally bestselling " Little Nicolas" series of children's books that idealized childhood in 1950s France.
She had evoked the town idealized by nostalgia with such strong tenacity that Gaston understood that she would not get married unless he took her to live in Macondo.
This is how Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmer at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and, at that time, this may have been close to the truth -especially on the frontier.
We’ve created this simple narrative with characters to root for and root against, and it’s all been endlessly idealized by the likes of Sir Walter Scott.