Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Proteus/044


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Mon fils     (French) My son.[1]

Un coche ensablé     (French) A coach stuck in the sand.[2] Stephen adapts the phrase from an essay by Louis Veuillot, Le Vrai poète Parisien (The True Parisian Poet), in his collection Les Odeurs de Paris (The Smells of Paris).[3] Veuillot is criticizing Gautier's Étude (Study), his funeral oration for the German poet Heinrich Heine.[4]

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Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses
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