Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 190
nder the Empire of Napoleon III. they can not be the figures of Watteau, Milletused to say. Watteau, who was a fashionableFrench painter in the last century, representedcountry people like figures in a masquerade. Theyare very pretty and very finely dressed, those daintyWatteau shepherds and… … Vol. XIV.—12. 178 MILLET AND THE CHILDREN. [Janxary, the misery and hardships of peasants made Milletindignant. What I call hardship, he said, iswork like that of the stevedore, imprisoned in adark, foul hold, stowing away coal — not the peas-ants free work in the open air. Since the court people…
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