Baudelaire and Manet, both slightly overcome with absinthe, argue noisily about the attractive bar maid in a Manet painting with whom Baudelaire has fallen in love. George Sand reveals personal thoughts about her relationship with Frederic Chopin and why she ignores his funeral, while lunching with Gustave Flaubert, her late life close friend. Jean Cocteau gives a brilliant interview to the wrong American magazine. Jean Paul Sartre explains to Simone de Beauvoir his reason for refusing the Nobel Prize and they leave Lutece hurriedly to announce it to the press. Victor Hugo weeps publicly at...