Saturday, July 02, 2011

Saint-Simon on the Manner of Boucher d'Orsay

...ne manquait que la baguette pour être une parfait fée.

So Saint-Simon in his Mémoires; cf. Édition Gallimard, 2006 at 16.  I think he just said "one baguette short of a perfect fairy." 

Afterthought: okay, so I guess he meant "wand."

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