Letter

 1 Introd  |           Merimee, Stendhal, and Sainte-Beuve. To signalize her equality
 2 Introd  |     Leroux; her father-confessor Sainte-Beuve; and Gustave Flaubert, the
 3 Introd  |        her writing rebukingly to Sainte-Beuve, as early as 1834, apropos
 4 Introd  |          our modern society?”~To Sainte-Beuve, himself an unscathed intellectual
 5 Introd  |          in this playful sally: “Sainte-Beuve, who loves you nevertheless,
 6 XVI     |       roughly nor thoughtlessly.~Sainte-Beuve, who loves you all the same,
 7 XVII    |      which I have under my skin. Sainte-Beuve, between ourselves, does
 8 XVIII   |        kiss your forehead, since Sainte-Beuve lied.~G. Sand~Have you any
 9 XLII    |          think of it any longer. Sainte-Beuve is much more disquieting,
10 XLVI    |       does not pay me back.~Poor Sainte-Beuve! More unhappy than we, he
11 XLIX    |    Sevres, to Creil, etc.~Father Sainte-Beuve is preparing a discourse
12 LV      |      your home.~As regards news, Sainte-Beuve seems to me very ill, and
13 LVI     |          Sand~I am anxious about Sainte-Beuve. What a loss that would
14 LVII    |    including myself, adores you? Sainte-Beuve has finally consented to
15 LXI     |         joy in the family. I saw Sainte-Beuve, I am content and proud
16 LXVIII  |          not a farce? and silly?~Sainte-Beuve is preparing a lecture on
17 LXXXVIII| imbecilic? What poor people!~And Sainte-Beuve? Do you see him? As for
18 LXXXIX  |     believe that I have not seen Sainte-Beuve? That I have had only the
19 XCIX    |          How you would love him!~Sainte-Beuve gets along. Anyway, I shall
20 CIII    |   nothing, nothing at all of the Sainte-Beuve incident. I get a dozen
21 CIII    |     Isidore were still among us.~Sainte-Beuve is very high tempered, and,
22 CIV     |       that I enjoyed life.~I saw Sainte-Beuve and the Princess Mathilde,
23 CIV     |         seems to me irrevocable. Sainte-Beuve was outraged against Dalloz
24 CIV     |           It seems to me that in Sainte-Beuve’s place I should have said, “
25 CIV     |        wrote to her, saying that Sainte-Beuve was right; he, I am sure,
26 CIV     |         of hunger? He’s no sage, Sainte-Beuve. Not like you!~Your strength
27 CIV     |      grammarians; at the time of Sainte-Beuve and of Taine, they are historians.
28 CVII    |           I am thinking again of Sainte-Beuve. Without doubt one can get
29 CXXXI   |      shall meet Saturday at poor Sainte-Beuve’s funeral. How the little
30 CCI     |         nothing in the school of Sainte-Beuve and Taine. They take everything
31 CCI     |        before witnesses, against Sainte-Beuve, while begging him to have
32 CCXXXIII| information; Troubat, [Footnote: Sainte-Beuve’s secretary.] also.~You