Davies, Randall · London: T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 410
of French painting formany years to come. But the most remarkable thingwas that it was to the classics that this revolutioniserwent for inspiration. The explanation is to be foundin the fact that he was bitterly aggrieved by the attitudeof the Academy to him as a young man, and in theaccident of… … French School But what was even more important in the influence Thehe exerted at this time was his actual appointment as EighteenthPresident of the Convention, which gave him the power Centuryto revenge himself upon the Academy, which he did byextinguishing it in 1793, and to remove any…
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