Pies: Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons

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The Blind Eye Within: Jacqueline de Romilly on Seeing and Aging. Abstract Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010), one of the preeminent figures of classical philology in France during the 20th century, is best known for her books on 5th-century Athenian political and cultural history. She may also be remembered as the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to have been elected to the Académie française (1988) as one of its “Immortals.” Less familiar to her readers are the biographical works she wrote late in life, among them Les roses de la solitude (2006), Les revelations de la mémoire (2009), and Jeanne (2011). These provide a window on her joys and on her regrets at having lived her life a…

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