Cranes, oil lamps, and silver bowls From Sylvain Maréchal to Isidore Ducasse

Based on a quotation from Les Chants de Maldoror taken from the first stanza of Chant II, this article proposes a probable source for this phrase, which can be found in a late eighteenth-century work, Les Antiquités d’Herculanum, written by Sylvain Maréchal.