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French etchers of the second empire (1916)

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939 · Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 166

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become the last great cenacle of the century. It began modestly enough, with only six members:Gavarni, Sainte-Beuve, Veyne, de Chennevierres, andthe two Goncourts. But it grew rapidly, and its mem-bership soon came to include such representative think-ers and men of letters as Taine, Renan,… … Bracquemond. Edmond de GoncourtIn the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to have been directly continued. For here, from the dy-ing embers of Romanticism, emerged the new spirit ofNaturahsm, of which Flaubert was the Paraclete, Tainethe prophet, and the Goncourts themselves were theapostles and pioneers —…

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