Excerpt from Jean-Fran�ois Millet: Twenty Etchings and Woodcuts Reproduced in Fac-Simile, and a Biographical Notice It? Was in the January of 1837 - fome fourteen or fifteen months after the father's death - Lthat Millet, furnifhed with fundry letters of introduction, and bound for the f'cudio of Paul Delaroche, arrived in Paris. His people had parted from him with tears and mif givings; and he knew, as well as they did, that he hadkcome to a terrible place, and one abounding in' temptations and wickednefs. But he-had a ...
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Excerpt from Jean-Fran�ois Millet: Twenty Etchings and Woodcuts Reproduced in Fac-Simile, and a Biographical Notice It? Was in the January of 1837 - fome fourteen or fifteen months after the father's death - Lthat Millet, furnifhed with fundry letters of introduction, and bound for the f'cudio of Paul Delaroche, arrived in Paris. His people had parted from him with tears and mif givings; and he knew, as well as they did, that he hadkcome to a terrible place, and one abounding in' temptations and wickednefs. But he-had a few hundred francs in his pocket, and the treafures of the Luxembourg and the Louvre were, at laft, within his reach. And it is to be conjectured that' he was tolerably happy, though he difliked the city itfelf, and was not at all in fympathy with the facts and circuml'cances of his environment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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