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which represents an angel, was intended for a tomb, but I had not time to execute it in marble. Yes, I had a fine block—white marble with pink veins. Well, sister, I give you my little statuette for your chapel.”

Jacques died a few days later. As the funeral took place on the very day of the opening of the annual exhibition of pictures, the Water-drinkers were not present. “Art before all,” said Lazare.

Jacques’s family was not a rich one, and he did not have a grave of his own.

He is buried somewhere.

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