Excerpt from Jean-François Millet, Peasant and PainterAlfred Sensier, whose posthumous book is here published, was a man who intersted himself in historical things, who loved, almost with passion, pictures, drawings, and engravings, and who defended with the msot indefatigable devotion some of the gretest artists of this century. He fought for them and by their side. In future years the name of Sensier will be always associated with the names of Theodore Rousseau. Diaz, and Millet.Born of Paris on the 25th of December, 1815, the son of a lawyer who delighted in books, Alfred Sensier heard, from childhood, the gossip of "Vignette editions" as well as the severer discussions of the law. Although he spent some of his youthful years in a lawyer's office, Sensier was always fond of pictures. While pursuing his law course, he watched with a passionate attention the great battles of modern art and its triumphs.When we first knew Alfred Sensier, a little while after the proc-lamation of the second Republic, he had just entered the Louvre with Jeanron. From the 1st of April 1848, to the end of 1850, he fulfilled the functions of Chief de Bureau de Musées. it was especially at this time that he was curious about collecting authentic documents on the subject of the Revolution and its leaders.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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