sais-tu aussi qu’il faut que le cœur se brise au le bronze?

October 1973

[Translation: “do you also know that the heart must break or be as hard as bronze?”]

[Inscription seems to be a reference to Nicholas Chamfort, who attempted suicide 3 times, and finally said to the Abbé Sieyès, “Ah! mon ami, je m’en vais enfin de ce monde, où il faut que le coeur se brise ou se bronze.”