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Fatigué ma toile: overworked the canvas — an art-studio term for a painting that has been reworked so many times it loses its freshness and spontaneity. ↩
Victor Hugo's seventy-ninth birthday: 26 February 1881 was indeed Hugo's birthday (born 26 February 1802). The popular celebrations were enormous; crowds gathered outside his house on the Avenue d'Eylau. ↩
Le Gaulois and Le Figaro were conservative papers that had little sympathy for Hugo's republican politics and refused to cover the celebrations with the same enthusiasm as the republican press. ↩