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In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.”
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The speaker says that in Paris, people do not treat him as an unusual curiosity. They simply identify him as “M. Tanner, an American artist.” The remark contrasts being seen as a person with a clear identity against being stared at or examined because of who he is.
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