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Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes of the Russian CourtMy French tour cost six thousand francs, my Italian one, eighteen thousand, - apparently, in trav elling, it is not the first step that costs most, - and my Spanish one, thirty-two thousand. But, for my latest, the Ministry of Public Instruction allotted me ten thousand francs - which did not recompense me, but, when a project is achieved, what matters the cost?Now, the new travels I was to ta...

Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes of the Russian Court It was the mode at one time to make portraits of a notable person in the Janus mode, with two heads, "facing both ways." Philip of Champagne went farther by presenting his patron Cardinal Richelieu in three ways, two profiles and a central full face. But to fully portray Alexandre Dumas his likeness would have to be shown by the multiscope, for each of his many phases suffice to make an emin...