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was also archaic French, having been standard orthography (along with such spellings as loy and roy) prior to c. 1775 and not totally supplanted by "i" until after 1790. After experimenting with other variations he eventually kept the former but dropped the latter, so that all of his best-known works
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immigrant who worked as a tailor and janitor for an apartment building in the Rue Saint
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sent 500 francs to help pay his medical expenses, but it was too late. Henri Murger died on 28 January 1861 at the age of 38. The French government paid for his funeral, which from contemporary accounts in
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also started a fund to raise money for his monument. Hundreds of people contributed and within two months it had raised over 6500 francs.
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