Un Obligeant Cicerone

A Citizen Exasperated by the Belts and Buckles

Jacques Maubourguet, you wanted to make a man out of your boy, who wasn't anything but a good-for-nothing! But now he is a Viscount ... of Maubourguet! Jacques, my man, there is only one God! I'd like to shake his Viscount-ness ... and no later than right away!, p. 18

Landscape

"Hold fast, Gaspard...I'm going to drown!..."

"You shouldn't have gotten so familiar, I'm within my rights!..."

The Eclipse of 1832

"What a pity that charming little woman hasn't hired me to defend her case... How I'd argue that her husband is a scoundrel!"

Wednesday he paints his passion

Two Female Figures

"Platonic love" is just an affectation, p. 131

May Milton

Primo Saignare, Deinde Purgare . . .