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Synopsis
Excerpt from Edouard Pailleron
Voila un jugement ingenieux, a coup sur, mais plus paradoxal que vrai, a mon sens. Quand le public recherche si avidement les mysteres du caractere et de la vie des hommes superieurs, c'est ou pour se venger de leur su periorite par le recit de leurs malheurs, de leurs efforts et de leurs ridicules, ou pour se conso ler, lui, public, de sa soumission en les voyant si puissants, si en dehors et au - dessus de lui que cette soumission meme etait forcee et que sa vanite n'a pas a en souffrir.
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