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            <mods:title>abbé Faria</mods:title>
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            <mods:namePart>Gavarni, Paul</mods:namePart>
            <mods:namePart type="date">1804-1866</mods:namePart>
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              <mods:roleTerm type="text">artist</mods:roleTerm>
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            <mods:namePart>Pardinel</mods:namePart>
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              <mods:roleTerm type="text">engraver</mods:roleTerm>
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          <mods:name type="corporate">
            <mods:namePart>Bureau de l'Écho des feuilletons</mods:namePart>
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          <mods:typeOfResource>still image</mods:typeOfResource>
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            <mods:place>
              <mods:placeTerm authority="marccountry" type="code">fr</mods:placeTerm>
              <mods:placeTerm type="text">Paris</mods:placeTerm>
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            <mods:publisher>Bureau de l'Écho des feuilletons</mods:publisher>
            <mods:dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf" keyDate="yes">1850</mods:dateIssued>
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            <mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">fre</mods:languageTerm>
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          <mods:physicalDescription>
            <mods:extent>1 engraving; 24.3 x 15.2 cm.</mods:extent>
            <mods:digitalOrigin>reformatted digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
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          <mods:abstract>Engraving by Pardinel after Gavarni from Le comte de Monte-Cristo / par M. Alexandre Dumas.  Illustrates an early episode in the novel: next to Edmond Dantès prison cell, lives another prisoner by the name of Faria, nicknamed "l'abbé fou" (the mad priest).  when th prison inspector comes to visit him, he is sitting in a circle sketched on the floor, and he is busy drawing geometrical figures around him.  His obsession for geometry and mathematical problems, in conjunction with his solitude and the incomprehension he meets in others, makes him a figure of melencolia imaginativa, a creative melancholia that Dantès will later recognize and value.  What is mistaken for madness by the prison staff is in fact a lucidity that Dantès will not fail to see.</mods:abstract>
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              <mods:title>comte de Monte-Cristo</mods:title>
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            <mods:name type="personal">
              <mods:namePart>Dumas, Alexandre</mods:namePart>
              <mods:namePart type="date">1802-1870</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:titleInfo>
              <mods:title>Paris: Capital of the 19th Century</mods:title>
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            <mods:identifier type="COLID">6</mods:identifier>
            <mods:identifier type="URI">http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris</mods:identifier>
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        <mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">No Copyright - United States</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition><mods:subject displayLabel="Thematic Category"><mods:topic>Art</mods:topic><mods:topic>Prints</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject displayLabel="Historical Period"><mods:topic>1848-1852 (The Second Republic)</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject displayLabel="Thematic Category"><mods:topic>Literature</mods:topic></mods:subject></mods:mods>