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Robert de MONTESQUIOU (1855-1921). L.A.S., January...

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Robert de MONTESQUIOU (1855-1921). L.A.S., January 1904; 5pages in-8. He authorizes the reproduction of a letter "on the disastrous gent of child prodigies, who represent only a more notable, hence more fearsome, form of the enfant terrible, and the spoiled child of an equally odious species", which he opposes to that of Pierre and Marie Curie. Some countries are even considering legislating against the "ravages produced in young organisms by the precocious exercise and impubescent excesses of the piano"...