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Full-length mirror

psyché

The mirror before which a woman might try a scarf in the proposed milliner’s trade card.

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The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

The mirror before which a woman might try a scarf in the proposed milliner’s trade card. The word designates a furnishing, not the soul, a psychological faculty or necessarily the mythological Psyche as a figure in the design. The English specifies “full-length mirror” and makes the proposed commercial scene clear.

Places to read

  1. Chapter VII, paragraph 21Frenchdevant une psyché: Before a full-length mirror. Rochemaure proposes a subject for an advertising card.