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...death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII tried to persuade France's top cultural expatriate to stay home. His blandishments failed. Poussin was quite content to accept commissions from royal courtiers -- notably from the Sieur deChantelou, a close and admiring friend to whom most of his surviving letters were addressed -- but he despised the French art world. French painters, in his eyes, were strapazzoni, careless hacks, "who make a sport of turning out a picture in 24 hours...
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