You will encounter Cavalieri Marino and a Maritime dictionary in colors

Noble ladies choosing swords over needles

Baudelaire emerging from Victor Hugo’s shadow.

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Elegantly bound London and Camus rivaling Molière and La Fontaine.

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Rackham laid on Japon, and Céline honoring a fellow writer in Belgium

Babeuf cursing aristocrats while Stendhal mocks them

Verlaine dreaming of the past and Pasteur of the future

Lévi-Strauss and Beauvoir basking in mutual admiration

Staritsky styling her books and Saint Laurent fashioning a cartoon character.

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And from mad amorous advances to drunken pineapples

You will see Surrealists surrealizing and poets… poetizing.