Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting
Edgar Degas Absinthe painting
speak of the harmony that prevailed in Italy and of the fidelity of the French, from whose territory he had just come, and said that he could not understand the sudden feeling of pessimism that had overcome them. What ailed them? What had they done with their captains and their colonels and their generals? Why weren't these officers on parade? Had they really been expelled from the camp, as he had heard?
"A few of us are still alive and about, Caesar," someone said, and Cassius came limping through the ranks and saluted Gennanicus. "Not many! They pulled me off the tribunal and have kept me tied up in the guardroom without food for the last tour days. An old soldier has just been good enough to release me."
"You, Cassius! They did that to you! The man who brought
Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting
from the Teutoburger Forest? The man who saved the Rhine bridge?"
"Well, at least they spared my life," said Cassius.
Gennanicus asked with horror in his voice: "Men, is this true?"
"They brought it on themselves," someone shouted, and then