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|title=The Raft
|sort=Raft
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=352
|publisher=Picador
|date=April 2007
|isbn=978-0330418485
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June 1818, France. Theodore Gericault is living a very comfortable life. He has been able to avoid all Napoleonic campaigns, the French Revolution et al, and has been born instead with a bit of a silver spoon in his mouth. His mother has died, leaving him enough to live on, and his uncle has diverted him from the family tobacco factory to enable him to be an artist. A painter, what's more, that doesn't need to beg and scrape for royal and other portrait commissions.
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= There was a strand about this in History of the World in 10.5 chapters, wasn't it? Trouble is, I just can't seem to remember that bit (the behemots and reindeer etc etc somehow overshadow it).
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|name=John
|verb=replied
|comment= Yes Magda, I thought there was one, which I wanted to refer to in the further reading strand but I didn't have time to check with any certainty.
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