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American History Tellers
Bartoldi's Legacy
Bartoldi was hired to make a bust of Eduard Renee de La Bouquet, host of the dinner party we spoke of at the beginning of this episode. He spent a lot of time on this proposal because this is going to occupy years of his life if the guy took it. The client, I don't know if he had vision or not, but he had no money. Egypt was just mired in debt.
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