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* All these quoted snippets are from the farewell guest book.

* Originally the title of an “illuminated and illuminating” medieval manuscript, here this expression refers to The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, translated and presented by Richard McDougall in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier: An Intimate Portrait of the Literary and Artistic Life in Paris between the Wars (New York: Scribner’s, 1976).