Twelfth journey. Moon rise above the clouds. 8 o’clock in the evening (altitude 2 400 m)
A tissandier, from Histoire de mes ascensions (Story of my balloon ascents), by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1880.
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Water Lilies (1906)
Claude Monet
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Arthur Rimbaud · Paul Verlaine
J.-K. Huysmans · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
Stéphane Mallarmé · Pierre Louÿs
Robert de Montesquiou · André Gide
*Selection of portraits of French writers by Félix Vallotton, from Le Livre des masques by Remy de Gourmont. +
“If you chance to find an authoress occupied with her needle, express no astonishment, and refrain from exclaiming, ‘What! can you sew?’ or, ‘I never supposed a literary lady could even hem a handkerchief!’ This is false, and if expressed in words, an insulting idea. A large number of literary females are excellent needle-women, and good housewives; and there is no reason why they should not be.” Etiquette for dealing with the authoress, from 1854.
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