From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
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   http://new.tigtail.org/TIG/L_View/TVM/X2/b.Impressionism/manet/manet-2.html   
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   > Scroll down, the painting is on the second row.  Jeanne Duval must have   
   > been a great beauty.  A prostitute, a woman of color and the long time   
   > lover of one of France's greatest poets.   
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   > By the way, since I am in the middle of Proust, check out his essay on   
   > Baudelaire. At the time Proust was writing, I think seven of the poems   
   > in "Les Fleurs du Mal" were still banned.   
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   Ever read Baudelaire's essay rejecting hashish? Pretty on the money.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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