Calligraphic exercise featuring neoclassical French poets

by Pierre Corneille, Boileau, Molière, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

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Laval, France: late nineteenth century. Single calligraphic leaf, measuring 8.75 x 13.75 inches, executed in ink and watercolor, matted to 16 x 20 inches. Numeral “6” at top righthand corner. Paper toned. Calligraphic leaf from a manuscript produced by a Carmelite sister or novitiate in the Immaculate Conception Carmel at Laval, France, established in 1856. Three literary quotations, transcribed here in a neat minuscule hand, represent

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