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Dubourdieu, a small, pale man with melancholy blue eyes, bowed slightly to Gazonal, who bent low as before a man of genius. "So you have elected Stidmann in place of " he began. "How could I help it? I wasn't there," replied Lora. "You bring the Academy into disrepute," continued the painter. "To choose such a man as that! I don't wish to say ill of him, but he works at a trade.
"Hey!" said Leon, "what are you pondering over, my dear Dubourdieu? Some fine symbolic composition? My dear cousin, I have the pleasure to present to you our illustrious painter Dubourdieu, not less celebrated for his humanitarian convictions than for his talents in art. Dubourdieu, my cousin Palafox."
"I'll mention it, if you want me to do so; you should never neglect an opportunity to strike minds." "Ah! my friends are preparing articles; but I am afraid they'll go too far." "Pooh!" said Bixiou, "they can't go as far as the future." Dubourdieu looked askance at Bixiou, and continued his way. "Why, he's mad," said Gazonal; "he is following the moon in her courses."
"It would be magnified." "Would our eyes be magnified too?" said Gazonal, looking at his two friends significantly. "Man will return to what he was before he became degenerate; our six-feet men will then be dwarfs." "Is your picture finished?" asked Leon. "Entirely finished," replied Dubourdieu.
It was alleged that her abjuration had been signified to Isaac Dubourdieu, of Montpellier, one of the most distinguished pastors of the French Church; but that, nevertheless, he had admitted her to the sacrament.
The great battle for which Lissa is celebrated took place on March 13, 1811, when the French were beaten by the English, who destroyed all their ships but three, the commander Dubourdieu being killed, after which Lissa was made a kind of Adriatic Malta. The Austrians strengthened the fortifications of the English, making it an arsenal, and in 1866 Tegethoff beat the Italian fleet here.
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