A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures.
his programmes, on his advertisements, and painted on the door of his
classes of the lycee.
"Two honor prizes at the general examinations in competition with all the
Now my father, allured by these successes, sent me as a day pupil to
take special private.html">private lessons from Pere Piquedent at the rate of five
three francs. I was then eighteen, and was in the philosophy class.
These private lessons were given in a little room looking out on the
me, as he did when teaching.html">teaching publicly in the institution, kept telling me
conceived an attachment to me, and poured out his misery to me.
He had never for the last ten or fifteen years chatted confidentially
no time to devote to making acquaintances.
"Not even.html">even the nights, my friend.html">friend, and that is the hardest thing on me.
books, little things that belong to myself and which others may not
frock-coat, nothing, not even my mattress and my pillow! I have not four
room. Do you see what this means--a man forced to spend his life.html">life without
all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah!
happiness.html">happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
"Here, all day long, teaching all those restless rogues, and during the
sleep in the bed at the end of two rows of beds occupied by these
out I find the streets full of people, and, when I am/am.html">am tired of walking,
you what, it is the life of a galley slave."
I said:
"Why did you not take up some other line, Monsieur Piquedent?"
He exclaimed:
"What, my little friend? I am not a shoemaker, or a joiner, or a hatter,
which would enable me to sell my knowledge at a high price. If I were a
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