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La Pêche. En Voilà un de Plaisir!, 1841. Ou La passion de la Pêche poussé jusqu'au dernier degré...Réaumur! (Fishing. Here's a Pleasure to Be Had! Or The passion for fishing pursued to the very last degree...of Réaumur!) Angler with dripping nose, fishing in a hole in the ice, as others skate past. The Réaumur scale is a temperature scale for which the freezing point and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively. The scale is named for René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.