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(_SWITZERLAND_) / THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
The foot of the high mountains that form the chain of Mount Blanc, / clothed with forests and pastures, revealed hues of delightful / intensity and vigour. Imagine an immense piece of green velvet crumpled / into large folds like the curtain of a theatre with the deep black of / its hollows and the golden glitterings of its lights; this is a very / faint image for the grandeur of the object, but I know of none that / could better describe the effect.