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Pierre Auguste Cot (1837–1883), academic painter known for The Storm (1880) and Springtime (1873), both hugely popular with the American public. He died later in 1883. ↩
"What one understands well is stated clearly, / And the words to say it come easily." — Boileau, Art poétique (1674), Canto I. A famous maxim on the virtue of clarity in writing. ↩
«Ô Richard, ô mon roi, l'univers t'abandonne»: Blondel's aria in Grétry's opera Richard Cœur-de-Lion (1784), sung by royalist officers at the Versailles banquet of 1 October 1789. ↩