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He sold _ assiettes à coq _ , pieces of Jean Jacques Rousseau 's wooden shoe , and water-colors by Ballue , signed Watteau . In that business he threw away what he had made , and ran in debt to the amount of several thousand francs . His wife , in order to straighten matters out a little and to try and get out of debt , asked for and obtained a place as box-opener at the _ Théâtre-Historique _ . She hired her sister the dressmaker to watch the door in the evening , went to bed at one o'clock and was astir again at five . After a few months she caught cold in the corridors of the theatre , and an attack of pleurisy laid her low and carried her off in six weeks . The poor woman left a little girl three years old , who was taken down with the measles ; the disease assumed its most malignant form in the foul stench of the loft , where the child had breathed for more than a month air poisoned by the breath of her dying mother . The father had gone into the country to try and borrow money .