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Huysmans, Joris-Karl

(1848 -1907)

 


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On his way from Paris to go see an exhibition on flemish primitives with the abbé Meunier, Huysmans makes a port of call at Lille to visit the catherdral Notre Dame de la Treille. His opinion of the place, as he jotted it down in his notebook, was as undivided as usual : « Une Déception, dans une ville nulle ».


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On his way from Paris to go see an exhibition on flemish primitives with the abbé Meunier, Huysmans makes a port of call at Lille to visit the catherdral Notre Dame de la Treille...




 

 

   
   
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