Saperlotte!…que je voudrais donc que ma femme ait fini d’improviser son quatrain sur les beautés de la nature dans la plaine St-Denis…! nous marchons toujours, mais ses vers n’avancent pas! (Good Lord!…how I wish that my wife would finish improvising her quatrain on the beauties of nature on the plain of St. Denis…! we keep walking, but her verses don’t advance at all!), from the series Les bas-bleus (The Bluestockings). Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808–1879Publisher: Aubert et Cie, Paris, founded 1829

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