Émile Zola
Image Attribution: Émile Zola (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Émile Zola (Public domain)
On the 15th May, a Friday, Claude, who had returned at three o’clock in the morning from Sandoz’s, was still asleep at nine, when Madame Joseph brought him up a large bouquet of white lilac which a commissionaire had just left downstairs. He understood at once. Christine had wished to be beforehand in celebrating the success of his painting. For this was a great day for him, the opening day of the 'Salon of the Rejected,' which was first instituted that year, and at which his picture—refused by the hanging committee of the official Salon—was to be exhibited.
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