Poznámky
Meissonier, Cabanel, and Bouguereau were the leading figures of the French academic tradition Marie disdained — celebrated for mythological and allegorical subjects that required no laborious study of real life. ↩
Déclassé: a person who has fallen from their social position, no longer belonging to any recognised class — a figure of particular pathos in 19th-century Paris. ↩