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Porte-voix (speaking-tube): a tube running between floors of a house, used by servants to relay messages between rooms; a standard fixture in prosperous 19th-century households. ↩
Marie explicitly defends herself against the Romantic cliché of the tubercular invalid who loves the world with a feverish, morbid intensity — she insists this boundless appetite for life has been hers since childhood. ↩
Émile Zola's La Joie de vivre (1884): a novel in which the selfless heroine Pauline Quenu sacrifices herself repeatedly for those around her while maintaining a stoic acceptance of life's suffering. ↩
Un Meeting (1884): Marie's painting of working-class children gathered in a street, submitted to the 1884 Salon. The title alludes to political street meetings (meetings being an Anglicism current in French republican discourse of the period). ↩