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Un Article louangeur, 1845. 'Lisez l'article que j'ai rèdigé sur votre ouvrage...je crois que vous serez satisfaite. - La dame lisant - "Nous venons de prendre connaissance du volume publié par Mme Eulalie des Bois-Fleuri, et nous pouvons announcer hautement que la France compte une Buse de plus!" - Comment Buse...mais j'avais écrit muse...brigand d'imprimeur!'. (Woman reads a newspaper review written by her husband about her newly published book). 'Husband: Read the article that I wrote on your work...I think you'll be pleased with it'. Wife: "We have just learned of the volume published by Madame Eulalie de Bois-Fleuri, and we can proudly announce that France now has one more idiot [buse]!" Husband: What do you mean idiot - I wrote muse, that damned publisher!'. From Les Beaux jours de la vie.