Eric Baratay is Senior Lecturer in History at the Universit� Jean-Moulin, Lyon.
Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier is Professor of Art History at the Universit� Jean-Moulin, Lyon. She is the author of many books, including A History of French Still Life in the Nineteenth Century (1998).
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