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the first painting, what strikes you at the first glance,
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Paris was really, the Paris of the boulevards were
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really made for the Impressionist paintings.
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And the only working-class impressionist painter was Renoir,
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and it was Renoir whom I quoted the other day.
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He started out as a porcelain painter in Limoges,
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painting porcelain, and it was he that said that these boulevards
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reminded him of the soldiers lined up for review.
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Again, that's not a bad description of the imperialism of
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the straight line.
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But it was these boulevards, and its commerce, and its wealthy
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people that the anarchists so much hated.