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Frian's Forbidden Portraits: Art Without Fakery and Realism That Penetrates to the Bone
Hello, friends! Imagine the year 1871. Dieuze is a small town in Lorraine that has just been swallowed up by the German Empire after France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Amidst the chaos, 8-year-old Emile Friant, the son of a locksmith and a tailor, flees with his almost adopted mother, Madame Parisot, to Nancy. This…