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    Boucher

    By Haldane Macfall

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Boucher - Haldane Macfall

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Boucher, by Haldane Macfall

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      Title: Boucher

      Masterpieces in Colour Series

      Author: Haldane Macfall

      Release Date: January 30, 2013 [eBook #41947]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOUCHER***

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      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY—T. LEMAN HARE

      BOUCHER

      1703-1770

      PLATE I.—MADAME DE POMPADOUR. Frontispiece

      (In the National Gallery of Scotland)

      Edinburgh is fortunate in possessing this, one of the world-famous examples of Boucher’s exquisite portraiture. He painted with rare charm more than once this wonderful woman, the king’s morsel, Jeanne Poisson, Madame Lenormant d’Etioles, who became the notorious Marquise de Pompadour. He gives us perhaps too dainty a butterfly; for, of a truth, this woman’s prettiness masked an iron nerve, an unflinching courage, and a capacity and talents which must have reached to fame in any human being whose frame they illumined. Nor is there hint of those hard qualities that robbed her of mercy, nor allowed her to bend an ear to suffering.

      Boucher

      BY HALDANE MACFALL

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      IN SEMPITERNUM.

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      I

      THE SMALL BEGINNINGS

      The year after good Queen Anne came to rule over us, Louis the Fourteenth being still King of France, on an autumn day in the October of 1703, that saw the trees of Paris shedding their parched leaves as a carpet to the feet of the much-bewigged dandified folk who stepped it swaggeringly down the walks of the Palais Royal, swinging long canes, and strutting along the shaded promenades of the more fashionable places of the city, there stood in the vestry of the parish church of Saint Jean-en-Grève a little group of the small burgess folk, gathered about a little infant, whilst

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