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ART IS LONG Of the Coup d’Etat (December, 1851) he only became aware two months after it had taken place, and when informed of it by a friend he confessed that »he had been so busy painting that he had not opened a newspaper for three months. Of literature the artist was almost as . ignorant as of politics. It is said that on one occasion, hearing Victor Hugo’s name mentioned, he remarked, “It would seem, then, that Victor Hugo is a man well known in literature.” He used occasionally to buy books at the old stalls on the Quay, but it was for their shape or colour, not for their literary contents. He was no reader, the only work he was ever known to study being Corneille’s tragedy of “Polyeucte,” and that he was still reading at the end of twenty years. As each year came by he would say, “Now this year I really must finish ‘Polyeucte.’ but he riever reached the end. - —E. BIRNSTINGL and A. POL-! LARD: “Corot” I
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25276, 30 August 1947, Page 7
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