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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20020811
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Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) would eat 100 oysters or 12 lamb chops at a sitting. Two thousand different characters representing all of France appear and reappear in his cycle of linked novels. His appetites were vast.

The art of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is similarly prodigious. His spirit was colossal.

Rodin's "Monument to Balzac" (1897) in the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden combines the force of those two men.

Balzac, short and fat in life, is nine feet high in bronze. He's rough-hewn as a standing stone, rooted as an oak.

Rodin spent seven years working on the monument. He collected ...

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