Poznámky
Rire est le propre de l'homme: Rabelais, Gargantua (1534), Prologue — "because laughter is proper to man." ↩
The Marshal's wife: Mme Canrobert, wife of Marshal François-Certain Canrobert. ↩
The scheme became Les trois Rires — contracted from six heads to three: a baby smiling, a little girl laughing, and Armandine bursting out laughing. It is no. 8 in the posthumous catalogue of February 1885, measured there at 0,55 × 1,45 m, and its whereabouts are unknown. ↩