Quelle 4: Girodet zu seinem Déluge (Bild)
Boime, 94, vgl. Levitine in Ars Auro Prior, FS Bialostocki, Warschau 1981, S. 619 und Coupin: Œuvres posthumes de Girodet-Trioson, Bd. 2, S. 343-344.

I thought to find in this concept the idea of a parallel, which seemed significant to me, between physical and moral nature. How many people who, placed on the reefs of the world and in the midst of social storms, entrust, like this family, their salvation and their fortune only to rotten supports.