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...background was Catholic and his upbringing strict. The son of an army officer turned provincial tax collector, Vuillard seems always to have been the soul of probity. He was forever conscious of being one of an elite, thanks partly to his education at the Lycée Concordet, one of the most demanding schools in Paris. "I think I am pretty safe in saying," wrote a friend, "that from his adolescence, every day of Vuillard's life has presented itself to him in the rainbow light of a moral predicament . . . Vuillard takes everything to heart." One might not infer...
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