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Excerpt from Le Peintre Robert Lefevre, Sa Vie, Son OEuvre
Plus tard, Honor' de Balzac, notre grand romancier, tres vers' dans l'histoire intime des premieres ann'es du xixe siecle, rappelle, en mainte description quel rang important tenait notre peintre dans le monde riche et 'l'gant du premier Empire ou de la Restauration; car il n'iguo rait pas qu'a cette 'poque, il 'tait d'usage d'avoir dans son salon une toile du fameux portraitiste, destin'e a fixer les traits de quelque membre de la famille. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
