“In times of old when Nature in her glad excess
Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen,
I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess,
Like a voluptuous cat about the feet of a queen.”

La Geante (1859)
Salon de 1859 (1859)

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French poet 1821–1867

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