The Proposal of Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia

Bartoldi was hired to make a bust of Eduard Renee de la Bouguet, host of the dinner party we spoke of at the beginning of this episode. Bartoldi made a miniature to go along with it because, you know, client, man, sometimes they have no vision. He spent a lot of time on this proposal because this was going to occupy years of his life if the guy took it. Egypt was just mired in debt.