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Like the painting Le Phare de Gatteville le soir, and presumably created around the same time, this is an impressionistic study of sky, water, and dark land masses, expressed in a sketchlike manner with no attempt at detail. Nevertheless, this is a…

Jacques Cazotte’s novel The Devil in Love, written in 1772, was the precursor of all modern fantastic stories. It tells of a young Spanish nobleman with whom the devil falls in love and tries to seduce in the guise of a beautiful woman, and blends…