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Michon makes me imagine the fiction Goncourts might have written had they left "realism" to others and gone all-in with their historical studies, their gallery ghosts and reveries over bibelots. "But certainly Watteau painted scores of whispering women, women sighing while thinking about something else, women who said neither yes nor no; and before them, men planted valiantly, strumming their theorbos in vain."