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The Portraits of Guy de Maupassant

portraits and medals," said another famous Norman, Barbey d'Aurevilly, "and that is to have none."

It is everything to set the imaginations of posterity dreaming. Painters as a rule do but disconcert the fertile visions of readers, always ready to create noble forms for the ideal expression of those they love to divine through their books.

OCTAVE UZANNE.

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