Boswell says he often ran over half London for data or notes, and lam sure that in my enthusiasm about Doré, I ran over all Paris. My labour of love became one of lively and absorbing interest, however, for I had the good fortune to know the various personages who appear in this work, and of whom one may safely say that they are one and all but a shade less interesting than Doré himself; in short, a fitting frame for such a picture.

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