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The Muslim Playboy Behind Paris’ Most Scandalous Painting

OH MON DIEU!

The Musée d’Orsay houses a work that still shocks visitors, a painting that united one of the 19th century’s most controversial painters with one of its most dissolute gentlemen.

Christopher Dickey
Christopher Dickey 

World News Editor

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Christopher Dickey

Christopher Dickey

World News Editor

christopher.dickey@thedailybeast.com

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