Carlègle (aka Charles Émile Egli) or C.H. Roussel, Elegant lady with hat in profile (Dame élégante avec chapeau de profil), Illustration for the book Les Linottes, written by Georges Courteline, 1912.
Les Linottes: In the preface, the author describes the impetus which gave life to this novel - singular in his work - and where he returns to the childhood memories which permeate the entire book: "Of all the books that I have written , there is none who gave me more joy and sweetness in writing it than the one whose pages follow and whose each sentence, each line, each syllable is a reminder of the distant hours which were the beginnings of my life. It was in Montmartre that I lived these hours, as it seems that Montmartre and I were made for each other, from 1865 which saw me, my behind exposed to passers-by, busy patting pâtés of sand from the flat of my white wooden shovel, to 1871, a time when family life gave way for me to college life and the turbulent wandering of the street to the provincial sadnesses which were to rain down on me from 1871 to 1878, from top of Meaux Cathedral, with the hours, their halves and their quarters. » (x)
