Anonymous engraving reproducing the painting by julie ribault entitled "piron", presented at the paris salon of 1822 (no. 1086), reporting an anecdote concerning the poet alexis piron. The engraving was published in "la guirlande des dames", a french almanac by albéric deville (9th grade, 1823), with the following commentary:
"piron, tired from a walk in the bois de boulogne, sits down near the door of the conference; soon he is greeted by all the passers-by. “oh! oh! i am better known than i thought!” but an old woman appears and throws herself on her knees. Piron invites him to get up; he notices that she is moving her lips; he leans over, listens and hears that it is an “ave” that this good woman addresses to an image of the virgin, placed above the bench where he was sitting; he also sees that it is to this image that all the greetings he had taken for himself were addressed. “these are the poets,” said piron as he left; “they believe that the whole world contemplates them, when we do not even think that they exist. ”. Object Type: print. Date: 1823. Julie Ribault - Piron (Guirlande des dames, vol 9, 1823) 02
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