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We are grateful to Dora Weiner for allowing us to reprint her heart-felt obituary of Roselyne Rey, who passed away early this year. Those of us who had the fortune to know her will always remember her underplayed manner, youthful looks and powerful intellect. Her work combined the best in the French historio graphical tradition: networking of facts and imagination. She described this supremely well when referring to her own History of Pain: 'If there were a fitting metaphor to describe this history which unfolds on a number of levels which have varying degrees of importance, it would be borrowed from Baudelaire's poem entitled "Le Thyrse" (The Thyrsus), this "pure staff" around which leaves and stems are wreathed: the straight line and the arabesque... '1 G.E.B.
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