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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3969378, member: 57495&quot;]My perception is that Flaubert&#039;s coin drawings kinda sucked. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/3668/files/2017/06/Carnet-7-Folio-48v-e1498063353829.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, so mine wouldn&#039;t have been much better, and that&#039;s the Truth.&nbsp; I do have an example of the coin, though. And a camera. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1044438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Flaubert apparently made a bunch of coin sketches in <a href="https://antiquitebnf.hypotheses.org/761" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://antiquitebnf.hypotheses.org/761" rel="nofollow">his notebook</a> when he visited the coin cabinet of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1860 and spent the day there with Henry Cohen.&nbsp; He was doing research for his set-in-Carthage novel, Salammbo.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;348 BCE <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" rel="nofollow">Plato</a> either died while being serenaded by a Thracian flute-playing girl, or at a wedding feast.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I think I&#039;m very much a believer in the Platonic school of death. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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