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Also , a painter in the rue Ravignan might lend us a few of his failures -- ` Before you go , let me show you my pictures , ' said monsieur Tricotrin : ` I am an ardent collector ' ! '' In Montmartre the sight of two `` types '' shifting household gods makes no sensation -- the sails of the remaining windmills still revolve . On the day that it had its likeness taken , the attic was temporarily transformed . At least a score of unappreciated masterpieces concealed the dilapidation of the walls ; the broken window was decorated with an Eastern fabric that had been a cherished `` property '' of half the ateliers in Paris ; the poet himself -- with the palm drooping gracefully above his head -- mused in a massive chair , in which Solomon had been pronouncing judgment until 12:15 , when the poet had called for it . The appearance of exhaustion observed by admirers of the poet 's portrait was due to the chair 's appalling weight . As he staggered under it up the steps of the passage des Abbesses , the young man had feared he would expire on the threshold of his fame . However , the photographer proved as resourceful as could be desired , and perhaps the most striking feature of the illustration was the spaciousness of the apartment in which monsieur Tricotrin was presented to readers of _ Le Demi-Mot .