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Tonkin: the French colonial campaign in northern Vietnam, then a highly contentious political issue. Jules Ferry (1832–1893), Prime Minister 1880–1881 and 1883–1885, was the chief architect of French colonial expansion. ↩
Tony Robert-Fleury (1837–1912): French academic painter who left France during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). ↩
Crystallisation: Stendhal's term in De l'Amour (1822) for the process by which the imagination clothes a beloved with imagined perfections, like a branch coated in crystals when left in a salt mine. ↩
Albert Wolff (1835–1891): powerful art critic for Le Figaro, known for championing or destroying careers with his reviews. ↩
The street in Paris's 17th arrondissement where Bastien-Lepage had his studio. ↩