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Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)

Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 160

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THE FIGURANTE. BY PHILIBERT AUDEBRAND. … THERE never was a time when the blaze of the foot-lights did not dazzle a multitude of bright French eyes,and turn a multitude of gay French heads. Even ifWatteau, the painter of love in idleness, had not leftus a few shadowy sketches of the opera nymphs of auld lang syne—the gay and graceful…

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