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Original Text:
LE PEINTRE QUI A EU UN TABLEAU REFUSÉ.
- Mossieu, ne trouvez-vous pas ce tableau horrible......, et comprenez-vous que le jury ait accepté une pareille croûte?.....
LE MONSIEUR..... - Mais, je trouve que la personne qui l'a fait a beaucoup de talent!......, c'est charmant!......
LE PEINTRE..... - Je vois que mossieu est un ami du peintre, mossieu aura même, sans doute, posé pour ce tableau......

Translation:
THE ARTIST WHOSE PAINTING HAS BEEN REJECTED BY THE JURY.

The Artist: - Sir, don't you think this is a horrible picture.... can you understand why the Jury has accepted such junk?
The Gentleman: - But I think the artist who did the painting has great talent! It's charming!
The Artist: - I see, Sir, that you must be a friend of the painter's... maybe you even posed for the painting!