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In 1875, when Henry James was thirty-two, he boarded a Cunard liner, stopped to visit London tailors, and then went on to Paris, where he soon counted Turgenev, Zola, and Maupassant among his friends. Although James is now known as the master of the modern novel, his tastes during his Paris sojourn were markedly conventional. He preferred Balzac to Flaubert, and complained that Impressionist paintings made him think "better ...