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1. 162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.

   in note 5:

   Van Gogh might have been thinking of Henry Bonaventure Monnier’s Mémoires de Monsieur Joseph Prudh...

   in translation:

   ... terrifying truthfulness, such as Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Daumier, De Lemud, Henri Pille, T. Schuler...

2. 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.

   in translation:

   ... and Souvestre, for example, as between an Henry Monnier and Compte-Calix and the above artists. Iâ€...

3. 296 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 27 December 1882.

   in note 3:

   Henry Monnier’s Croquis à la plume (1858) consists of 28 dramatised conversations. The story ‘Un...

   in translation:

   ...nted Mr Prudhomme)? In it I read a ‘journey by diligence’, amazingly true to life. Henry Monnier

4. 436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.

   in note 10:

   See for the character of Prudhomme in Monnier’s Scènes populaires dessinées à la plume, Grandeur...

   in translation:

   ...eneralities, their opinions — like those of Monnier’s Joseph Prudhomme. But philosophizing about...

5. 455 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 23 August 1884.

   in note 4:

   ...er of the petit bourgeois Joseph Prudhomme in Monnier’s Mémoires de Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme: le...

   in translation:

   ... were in accord we’d have to be people like Monnier’s Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, and I at least ...

6. 510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.

   in note 8:

   See for the character of Joseph Prudhomme in Monnier’s Scènes populaires dessinées à la plume, G...

   in translation:

   ...ou can’t stand that either — and in content they’re a new edition of Monnier’s M. Prudhomme.

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