Crossword-Solution: EPICES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

His first book, _Le Drageoir á Epices_, published at the age of twenty-six, is a _pasticcio_ of prose poems, done after Baudelaire, of little sketches, done after Dutch artists, together with a few studies of Parisian landscape, done after nature.

From the first he has had a style of singular pungency, novelty, and colour; and, even in _Le Drageoir à Epices_, we find such daring combinations as this (_Camaïeu Rouge_)--_Cette fanfare de rouge m'étourdissait; cette gamme d'une intensité furieuse, d'une violence inouïe, m'aveuglait._ Working upon the foundation of Flaubert and of Goncourt, the two great modern stylists, he has developed an intensely personal style of his own, in which the sense of rhythm is entirely dominated by the sense of colour.

And I make the cakes, as Arthur knows," added Mrs Rose, cheerily, patting her grandson's head; "but if I should go hence, there should be a famine, _ma foi_!" "A famine of _pain d'epices_" assented Mrs Tremayne, smiling.

Mrs Rose finished gathering her materials, and proceeded to mix her _pain d'epices_, or Flemish gingerbread, while Mrs Tremayne made Barbara sit down in a large chair furnished with soft cushions.

They are the Foire aux Pain-d’Epices, the Fête de Neuilly, the Fête des Invalides, the one surrounding the bronze lion of Belfort, and other smaller ones along the Boulevards Vaugirard, Pasteur, Garibaldi, Grenelle, and Rochechouart, and the Fête of La Chapelle.