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In 2000, he organized “La Divine Comtesse: Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione,” drawn from hundreds of 19th-century photographs he had gathered of an eccentric Italian noblewoman who staged proto-modernist portraits of herself in the guise of various historical and literary figures.

But first: Our impressionable protagonist lands a summer-long gig as secretary to Madame la Comtesse Ingeborg LaFollette deChassy Padgett, Belgian wife of Duke Padgett, the robber baron who built a mansion called Elkhorne, and furnished it with pianos and mahogany trimmings carried into town by mule.

Comtesse acknowledged that the two candidates are diametrically opposed.

Marie-Therese Hennebel, 67, a retired nuclear factory worker, who lives in the same apartment block as Comtesse, said she admired Le Pen’s folksy charm and straight talking.

“She has had the advantage, you know, of practising on me,” she continued—“like La Baronne d’Almane on La Comtesse d’Ostalis, in Madame de Genlis’ Adelaide and Theodore, and we shall now see her own little Adelaide educated on a more perfect plan.”