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Updated: May 5, 2025
Her husband, the once gay, handsome musketeer, was already turning gray and losing his eyesight to such a degree, indeed, that he could scarcely see well enough to continue his profession as a fan-painter. When Madame Angelin went to Paris she often called on Constance, to whom, before long, she confided all her worries.
Known to society as the grand-duke, otherwise Count Duren, he had humble lodgings in No. 7, Rue du Temple, as a fan-painter, plain M. Rudolph. To mask the large sums which on occasion he dispensed in charity, he was wont to give out that he was the agent of wealthy persons who trusted him in their alms-giving.
The former fan-painter of triumphant mien was now completely blind, a mere thing, a poor suffering thing, whom his wife seated every morning in an armchair where she still found him in the evening when she returned home from her incessant peregrinations through the frightful misery of guilty mothers and martyred children.
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