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"And he asked her whether she had seen the flower paintings by Fantin-Latour.'They are first class, the work of a fine painter, one of the masters of the palette. Nevertheless, in my opinion, they cannot stand comparison with those of Mme de Villeparisis, which give a better idea of the colouring of the flower'.
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"And he asked her whether she had seen the flower paintings by Fantin-Latour.'They are first class, the work of a fine painter, one of the masters of the palette. Nevertheless, in my opinion, they cannot stand comparison with those of Mme de Villeparisis, which give a better idea of the colouring of the flower'.
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"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
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