to serve on theJury, and the fourth was Meissonier, who was notan exhibitor. All the other names on the list ofjudges are now unknown. The Emperor Napoleon was personally veryangry over the rejections, and he offered LesRefuses his whole-hearted sympathy. He assistedthem to open a rival Salon which… … C ij YV\aAA Y%&/+ souvenir dk mortkko.ntai.skLXV. No. 269.—August 1915 BY J. B. C. COROT 49 The Paris Salon of Fifty Years Ago The part the Emperor Napoleon III played inthe artistic world of France has never beenthoroughly explained, nor has he received thehonour due to one who stood by and…
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