#a novel where his george sand stand in takes the foreground
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So apparently there was a window tax in 1820. People would obstruct their windows to avoid it.
#found in balzac’s beatrix#a novel where his george sand stand in takes the foreground#i do wonder why a window tax would exist#(so far the writing is very good here there’s not much of B’s irony he sounds kind of hugolian even#very elegant prose very romantics speculative explanation of the origins of things -in this case the venetian 4leaf clover in architecture-#lol#then it gets a teensy bit boring and royalist#but the initial description of britanny and it’s medieval art is evocative#beatrix tag
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