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I have no intention of being killed, there's too much I still want to do with my life.

— Frédéric Bazille

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Quote from a late letter of Bazille he wrote in 1870, shortly before he died in the Franco-Prussian War; Bazille joined General de Barrail's staff

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I have started a large landscape which is beginning to take shape.

The big classical compositions are finished; an ordinary view of daily life would be much more interesting.

I do hope, that if I ever do anything, at least to have the merit of not copying anyone.

It is really too ridiculous for a reasonably intelligent person to expose himself to this kind of administrative caprice.

Certain parts of the forest [the forest Bas Bréau, near Barbizon ] are truly wonderful. We can't even imagine such oak trees in Montpellier.

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