Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… the point where one grows utterly weary, and yet there is nowhere to sit’ (659). Compounding her misery was the lack of conversation, both at routs and during walks in the city parks where, she described, couples strolled about like … Le Brun could not see herself in the worldly London gatherings where restraint was imposed and where she often found conversation lethargic. Yet she needed to expand her network of clients, and the community of French émigrés gathered … and needlepoint. The men read books at the other end, keeping the same silence’ (685). The ‘absolute dearth of conversation’ in the evenings weighed heavily on Vigée Le Brun. Oddly enough, she had found there were ‘plenty of …
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