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13.: “THE STATUE OF A POET FAR SUPERIOR TO CLAUDIAN” — ( P. 191 ) - Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5 [1776]Edition used:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 5.
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13.“THE STATUE OF A POET FAR SUPERIOR TO CLAUDIAN” — (P. 191 )Other readers may, like myself, have been puzzled by this reference of Gibbon. Professor Dowden has supplied me with what must, I believe, be the true explanation. The statue of Voltaire by Pigalle (now in the Institut) was executed in 1770. The actress Mlle. Clairon opened a subscription for it. See Desnoiresterres, Voltaire et la Société au xviii. Siècle, vii. p. 312 sqq. |
