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compared his drawings to those of a medium and appreciated their meticulousness: "The detail in Jean-Claude
Fourneau's drawings gives us a sense of the infinite (...) Fascinating in the power and sensitivity that every stroke of his brush conveys." For the literary character of his work, the critic
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before the war, probably did not imagine that his experience would lead him to these portraits of princesses, countesses, marquises of the whole of Paris, beautiful and anxious in their deserted corridors, in search of a soul, a need, a dream. Jean-Claude
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