La Femme aux Roses de Théodore de Banville et Jean-Jacques Pradier: Texte & Sculpture {Scented Quote of the Day} {Cultural Notes}
A sculpture by / une sculpture de Jean-Jacques Pradier Chloris caressée par Zéphyr (1849):
And an anecdote plus a poem both by poet Théodore de Banville about "The Woman with Roses", the inspiration behind the sculpture (apocryphal source suspected) and the poem. Et une anecdote (source apocryphe probable) et un poème tous deux signés par Théodore de Banville sur "La femme aux roses". Perfumer Lubin is mentioned (I am leaving the texts in the original): Le parfumeur Lubin est cité à deux reprises dans le corps du texte:
"C'était à la Comédie-Française, autrefois. Il y avait une belle dame qui aimait à la passion les roses effeuillées. A cette époque de l'année où le parfumeur Lubin fait avec des roses des préparations chimiques et a devant son officine des claies immenses sur lesquelles les tas de roses effeuillées s'élèvent à deux ou trois pieds de haut, la dame en faisait acheter chez Lubin et, en remplissait sa loge, en couvrait les meubles, les tables, les divans, en jonchait les jardinières, les vases de Chine et tout ce qui pouvait contenir des roses effeuillées!...
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