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YEARS BEFORE BECOMING ANTONI FORTUNY'S SLAVE, SOPHIE CARAX had been a woman who made a living from her talents. She was only nineteen when she arrived in Barcelona in search of a promised job that never materialized. Before dying, her father had obtained the necessary references for her to go into the service of the Benarenses, a prosperous family of merchants from Alsace who had established themselves in Barcelona.
"When I die," he urged her, "go to them, and they'll take you in like a daughter."