The other French patient had been bitten by a dog.

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The names Mimi and Touto were chosen instead, the French terms used by children for cat and dog.

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The work became so absorbing, so meditative, that he would try to paint at the deepest hours of night, when only the bark of a dog or distant cock-crow would disturb the southern French hillside where he lived.

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