Excerpt from Corot and His Friends<br><br>And the facts entangle Louis Jacques in} the ravished locks of Paris. His father, Claude Corot, had come thither from mussy-la-fosse to make his career as a hairdresser. That he, our painter's grandfather, was a hairdresser in the rue de grands-degrés, not the most squeamish biographer has cared to deny. Further, on his death, his widow married Monsieur Pierre Amene, hairdresser of the rue de Grenelle, so that not only were Louis Jacques' earliest hours measured by the ticking of his father's scissors, but his youth was spent in the establishment of his step-father. Could any one be further immeshed? On his step-father's death, he inherited the shop in the rue de Grenelle, and in 1793 went to his weddlng from its portals. In the certificate of birth of his first child, Camille's sister, he IS Corot, pew/259m. Perhaps it is because he came to live through a period when épz'cier was the type of a slighting name to call a man] by, that his profession is so obscurely noted in the many lives of his son. But now that we have grocers who are courtiers, the equals of a dean and something better than an author, we may be allowed to be quite frank as to Louis Jacques' condition.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.