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Archive footage from the filming of the Chambord stag in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache

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A Degas drawing "At the Paris Opera" and those very private partitions in the auditorium of the Paris Opera, on a model of the building in the Musée d'Orsay

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My thoughts when yet another barely acquainted person begins to tell me about his "noble roots"

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The tureen in which Napoleon served broth to Marie-Louise when she bore him a son, the King of Rome, Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte: it, too, could be seen at the Paris Biennale, on the ImperialArt stand

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The boots Napoleon wore during his years on the island of Saint Helena, in the Drouot pavilion at the Paris Biennale

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My cat demands attention and a pouch of food at 7 a.m.

Black-and-white drawing of a vaulted room with a column. Two colour panels hang on the walls: a ring of orange nude figures and a group of figures on a blue-green ground.

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Sketch of an interior with two panels: orange figures on blue and green

Studio interior in a gilt frame: lilac walls, red floor, yellow rug, a screen draped with dark blue floral fabric, sculptures, an easel and paintings.

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Henri Matisse, The Pink Studio: painting in a frame on a museum wall

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But There Is Good News, Too

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There Are Only Two Kinds of Captive

There are only two kinds of captive. The prisoner taken in battle (suffering in some cave) and the bound captive with bleeding wounds (relieving himself without the aid of his hands, gazing proudly). Which of the two is our favourite, I think, needs no explaining

Painting of a centaur with a deer's body and antlers, head thrown back, an arrow in his chest, on a meadow with small flowers.