Part 4

For a while only. For just as, out of the blood and terror of the Revolution, a real France arose, ph[oe]nix-wise, from the ruin, and in being born, whilst putting off the vilenesses of the thing from which she sprang, took on also to herself the gracious and winsome qualities that place her amongst the most fascinating peoples of the ages; so Boucher has come into his kingdom again--the most gracious of painters that the years have yielded.

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