THE HIGHEST CARYATID IN PARIS
Take a look at this great lady, very mysterious. Auguste-Emile Sag is the author, he drew it in 1851 at a competition launched by the Fine Arts to pay tribute to Augustin Fresnel, inventor of the lens at the level. This is pretty much what we know of this elegant woman making explicit reference to the Greek caryatids of the Acropolis of Athens. It was characterized by several nicknames: " the angel of the bizarre "," genius "and even" the woman with the bag "referring to the small scholarship that it carries in the right hand. She intrigued and intrigues always. Yet Raymond Queneau offers a Poetic explanation assuming that this great lady is the tribute of a man who has earned a lot of money to the lottery after following the advice of an angel seen in dream…
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