It has been very wrong to take from our poets the classic muzzle, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

It has been very wrong to take from our poets the classic muzzle, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

1832 - 1852 Print

59.500.592(54)

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