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To critics this was the folie de grandeur in the company's hasty expansion abroad; it never seemed likely that chic Parisiennes would flock to the M&S lingerie department.
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A. N. Wilson believed that if Scott had continued to quietly cultivate his friendships and the life of the mind like Oldbuck, rather than indulging a folie de grandeur like Wardour's, he would have died a happier man.
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Williams angered her by mentioning her only briefly in his 1975 memoirs, where he dismissed her as "an occasional actress" and "afflicted with folie de grandeur". At her insistence, he wrote an apology saying that editors had cut down his description of "this richly sustaining attachment".See also Edmund White, "Sincerely Theirs: Letters as Literature", The New York Times, 27 May 1990, review of Five O'Clock Angel with a quotation from it. However, at the end of his life, his friendship for her was cooling.
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Sir Arthur was said by Scott's acquaintance Allan Cunningham to have been modelled on Sir John Whitefoord, 3rd Bt., though it has also been claimed that he was based on Sir John Sinclair, 1st Bt., a Caithness landowner who was taken in by a fraudulent geologist, Rudolf Erich Raspe. According to one commentator, “Scott detested Sir John Sinclair, and probably got some pleasure from representing him as Sir Arthur Wardour”. Similarities have also been noted between Sir Arthur and the fictional Sir Epicure Mammon, the gullible nobleman in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist. Yet another claim is that Wardour is a portrait of his own author as a true-blue Tory supporter of the claims of the established aristocratic order; A. N. Wilson was also struck by the similarity Sir Arthur displays to Scott's behaviour in later years, “duped by hare- brained financial schemes and folie de grandeur”, and, when his fortune is restored, talking of buying contiguous estates that would stretch from shore to shore.
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