I quite agree with you, the Mademoiselles Morisot are charming. What a pity they are not men. All the same, they could serve the cause of painting, in their capacity of women, by each marrying an academician and bringing trouble to those old bogeys in the enemy-camp. Or perhaps that's asking too much sacrifice.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I quite agree with you, the Mademoiselles Morisot are charming. What a pity they are not men. All the same, they could serve the cause of painting, in their capacity of women, by each marrying an academician and bringing trouble to those old bogeys in the enemy-camp. Or perhaps that's asking too much sacrifice." in the context of "Quote from Manet's letter to Fantin-Latour, 26 August 1868
• the letter is written shortly after Henri Fantin-Latour introduced the two in the Summer of 1868 for probably the first time. Later Manet and Berthe started to meet each other much more frequently." to mean that wisdom is timeless.