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1 CXVIII | two volumes, it will be 20,000 francs, that is agreed. 2 CCXII | this book, look at page 100.~If I had kept silent they 3 CCXLIII | all. What a fine page is 113! and how difficult it was 4 CLXXXIV | received your letter of the 11th yesterday.~We have all suffered 5 CCXLV | not want to sell more than 1200 copies of the Dernieres 6 XCIII | open by chance) is page 161!~In the play won’t you have 7 Introd | roots in the Revolution of 1789. He found, shall we say? 8 CLXXIV | most ferocious politics of 1793. Now, I understand them! 9 LXV | to Paris, the 16th; the 17th at one o’clock, I leave 10 XXXVI | permitted me I began in 1804 under the auspices of the 11 Introd | religious experiences; and in 1822 she was assigned to her 12 CCLXXII | things. A poet says: “I am of 1830, I learned to read in Hernani, 13 Introd | Sainte-Beuve, as early as 1834, apropos of his epicurean 14 Introd | her middle period—say from 1838 to 1848—of which The Miller 15 Introd | inspired by the spirit of the 1840 bourgeois. Their recriminations 16 LXVI | in my notes: “National of 1841. Bad treatments inflicted 17 Introd | death of his father, in 1845, he succeeded to the family-seat 18 Introd | love-affair, extending from 1846 to 1854—that with Mme. Louise 19 XLIX | everything. We have to go back to 1849 to find such a degree of 20 Introd | extending from 1846 to 1854—that with Mme. Louise Colet, 21 XVII | published in L’Artiste in 1858, a rather good hoax on the 22 Introd | was long since past; in 1862, when the correspondence 23 II | FLAUBERT Paris, 15 March, 1864~Dear Flaubert,~I don’t know 24 CCCXVIII | par Sannois, 20th August, 1877~Thank you for your kind 25 CCCXIX | Tuesday morning, April, 1880~My dear Maurice,~No! Erase 26 CXCVII | another, my God! my God! 1et us love one another or we 27 CXLIX | bad. My play is for the 22d. [Footnote: This refers 28 CLII | GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2d March, 1870~Poor dear friend, 29 CCLXVIII | played, I think, between the 2oth and the 25th of this month. 30 CCIII | garden bench. I sent her 300 francs, she needed 600. 31 CLXIV | be suffering; here it is 34 degrees in the shade, and 32 CLXIX | will not have a beach, but 36 degrees in the shade and 33 CLXXI | THAN EVER!~It is between 40 and 45 degrees IN THE SHADE 34 CXXXIX | litterature, Calmann-Levy, p. 415.] today and this evening, 35 CLXXI | EVER!~It is between 40 and 45 degrees IN THE SHADE here. 36 XXXVI | widow Dodin Rue Lanion, 47, Belleville.~ 37 CXCVII | Impressions et Souvenirs, p. 53.]~ And what, you want me 38 CCIII | her 300 francs, she needed 600. I begged from kind souls. 39 IV | the mark Palaiseau 9 May, ’66.]~ M. Flobaire, You must 40 CII | my dear, big child. May ’69 be easy for you, and may 41 CCXI | After the dismal winter of ’70 to ’71, one ought to complain 42 CCXI | dismal winter of ’70 to ’71, one ought to complain of 43 XL | that they are giving him,—80 covers, at least.~As for 44 XIII | 26 August, 1866 Monday, 1 A.M.~Dear friend, I shall be 45 Introd | order.” Yet with age, the abandonment of many distractions, the 46 LVIII | by democracy that he will abase himself to a complete effacement, 47 CCLXVI | also, la Chretienne by the Abbe Bautain. A curious book 48 CCIII | you won’t let yourself be abducted for our Christmas Eve REVELS. 49 CXCVI | winter; prepare him for this abduction. I embrace you, as I love, 50 CLXXVII | nor hunger?~Why do they abhor us so fiercely? Don’t you 51 Introd | causes. But his general and abiding conceptions of humanity 52 CCXLIX | worse each time. I cough abominably, and I ruin innumerable 53 CXCV | Revolution, which was an abortion, a failure, a misfire, “ 54 CCCII | bottom of these intellectual abortions; in short, abandon the convention 55 Introd | the old theology; and she abounded, like St. Francis, in her 56 CCXVII | which are complicated with abscesses and tend to become membranous. 57 LX | treasure of gentleness which absorbs us all. If it can be arranged, 58 CCC | you criticise them, you abstain from a literary appreciation 59 CCI | adultery, and for men in abstaining from theft! In short, the 60 Introd | half concealed beneath the abundance of his mane, were widely 61 XXXV | you do appears so easy, so abundant! It is a perpetual overflow, 62 XLVI | Your work would flow more abundantly afterward and you would 63 XXI | has to allow oneself to be abused, laughed at, and misunderstood 64 CLXXVI | are in the depths of the abyss! A shameful peace will perhaps 65 CCXLIX | The war has opened many abysses. I have not been able to 66 CCXLV | father Dumas and you? Levy is academic. I have made more money 67 LXXI | impatience.” (Memoires de l’Academie de Saint-Quentin.)~ 68 CCLXXXV | HAPPINESS, that is to say, the acceptation of life whatever it may 69 LVI | one find some fashion of accepting the honor, the duty, and 70 LXIV | want to do, I need only accessories; I hardly want to describe; 71 Introd | atrocious. It is perhaps an accident, as has been suggested, 72 CCCI | purposely turned aside from the accidental and the dramatic. No monsters 73 XLII | and on account of that, accidents to look out for. I am very 74 LI | great deal of trouble in acclimating is finally growing thousands 75 CCXCIV | I am sure that you will accommodate your life to your resources. 76 CCLXI | walking rough, the living accommodations poor. I got through it all 77 Introd | the last man as a solemn accompaniment to his final contention 78 CCLXVI | right can a man prevent the accomplishment of the law?~The Bonapartists 79 CCXLIV | never having relations with accredited JUDGES.~Michel never tells 80 XL | very naive and gives an accurate idea of the men of our generation 81 CLXXI | it to be found in these accursed times?~Happily, we have 82 CCL | dose, a half-centigram of acetate of morphine taken every 83 CCLXXXVII | at the funeral of Amedee Achard. The Protestant ceremonies 84 CCXXI | struggle! What a bitter achievement of rest! and you are going 85 Introd | she has no intention of acknowledging final defeat: “For me, the 86 Introd | she, perhaps, ever wholly acquiesce in that scheme of things 87 Introd | her generation counselled acquiescence in servitude or silence 88 CXCVII | I could not approve of acquiescing in indifference to what 89 CCLXIX | that I have been able to acquire or to produce, has no value 90 CCCVIII | contemplating a wall of the Acropolis, a perfectly bare wall ( 91 | across 92 CXXIV | the midst of the exuberant activities of Maurice, and of his brave 93 LXXXIX | study of human nature in the actual individuals whom the fiction 94 Introd | Consequently, we find him actuated as a writer by two complementary 95 LXXIV | Afterwards, Madame Edmond Adam.] is really charming; you 96 CLXXVIII | feel that I am very old to adapt myself to new customs.~Oh! 97 CCLXVII | who nevertheless is a fine addlepate, full of sympathy and spirit. 98 CCXCV | feeling of my powerlessness adds to my chagrin.~Don’t tell 99 Introd | social order; it is a free adherence to order, a sacrifice approved 100 Introd | should, of course, have adjusted herself quietly to the altered 101 XXVII | pressing. Bouilhet’s play goes admirably well, and they told me that 102 XLV | all our loves and all our admirations we find ourselves again: 103 Introd | great generosity; but as he admits with a truth and pathos, 104 XCIX | until the end of March. Even admitting that everything goes perfectly, 105 Introd | brothers in talent, she adopts male attire: “I had a sentry-box 106 XLVI | Palaiseau. Those flowers are adorably fresh, they smell sweetly, 107 CVI | uncertainties.~Aurore, who lives on adorations in the lap of her father 108 VI | two great diamonds which adorn your face.~Jorje Sens~The 109 CXXXV | persons who received a copy adorned by my hand, they have been 110 CLXIX | for I must work, Buloz advances me too much money. Here 111 CCXLV | paradox, has boasted of its advantages in the preface to the Dame 112 Introd | Empire. Between his literary advent and hers there is an interval 113 Introd | She was a modern spiritual adventurer who had escaped unscathed 114 CCVII | Throughout the rehearsals they advertised in the papers the revival 115 Introd | same foes, our professional advocates of “preparedness,” our cheerful 116 Introd | am reading over again the Aeneid, certain verses of which 117 Introd | youth is not ethical but aesthetic; he finds his inspiration 118 CLVIII | teach her a little about aesthetics.~I saw l’Autre last evening, 119 LXXXVI | antithesis, without solution. He affects one like one of the old 120 CLXVIII | if the moi persists. The affirmative seems to me a presumption 121 XXXV | yourself. Go ahead and when the afflatus shall have produced everything 122 XLVIII | forget that they appear afflicting to those who seem in the 123 CLXXII | consequence of my repeated afflictions? Perhaps. But the war is 124 CXCI | mother now. Her society afflicts me and unnerves me, my niece 125 CV | of March if and I can not afford to wait till then. To conclude, 126 Introd | herself.~The demonstration afforded by a comparison of Salammbo 127 CCCXVIII | Imbecility of the Bourgeois affords me! Summed up at present 128 CCXIV | great deal and I am again afloat. I have begun anew my reading 129 CLVII | is that there was then in Africa the wife of an army doctor 130 CXCV | We are floundering in the after-birth of the Revolution, which 131 Introd | entire village clustering agape; take the picture of the 132 CLXXXVIII | invasion for me is that it has aged my poor, dear, old mother 133 CCLXXIX | faible returned to me by an agent of the theatrical management, 134 CXCVII | and the workman, those two agents of labor and of exchange, 135 Introd | 1848—of which The Miller of Aginbault, Consuelo, and The Countess 136 XLV | everything troubles and agitates me, everything is to me 137 XXXVI | have the phthisic still agreeably and always faithful to all 138 CC | But the connection and agreement between your truths of reason 139 CCXLIX | very kind, to compile his agronomical recollections, so that I 140 CCV | the way, the minister is aiding with 200 francs. Her pension 141 CCLXXXI | he went to the baths at Aix in Savoy, and in two weeks 142 CXCIV | You cannot imagine the alarm of the Parisians. “In six 143 CLVII | CORNU~Your devotion was alarmed wrongly, dear madame, I 144 LX | gather up before the most alert. They were an object of 145 CCLVII | strengthened the massacre at Alexandria and clarified the symbolism 146 Introd | than inspiring Musset’s Alexandrines or Chopin’s nocturnes. It 147 CXXIX | longer from not living in the Alhambra.~What would do me good now, 148 Introd | the beautiful a heap of alien things, the useful, the 149 CL | send these seats out of my allotment—which, as usual, will not 150 XLVII | troubadours many things are allowable.~You are very kind with 151 XX | nomenclature, so long as it is allowed to use the same expression 152 XC | very devoted collaborator allows me. I am taking up again 153 CCLVII | defend my point of view.~“J’allume le fagot,” etc., all of 154 Introd | goes down the easy and alluring path to disgrace and ruin. 155 XL | rehabilitate him at the Theatre Almanzor? I can see him with his 156 LXXI | too many repetitions of ALORS, MAIS and ET. The labor 157 CCXCIX | is nicer than ever, Zola, Alphonse Daudet, and Goncourt. You 158 VII | doesn’t make one person alter the other; quite the contrary, 159 CLVII | a name I had invented by altering that of Bouvaret.~The first 160 XXXV | enthusiasm, they do not alternate these as in sleeping and 161 CXXXIII | for at the moment. I work alternately on MY novel, the one that 162 Introd | which the second sometimes alternates with the first, sometimes 163 Introd | is evolved with the same alternation of picture and dramatic 164 CCCXI | he is on his mountain of alum for long. Lina is writing 165 XXXIII | in the light.~Vale et me ama.~ 166 Introd | detail, fill his notebooks, amass his materials, master his 167 CCLXXXIII | s sake, of watching with amazement the agitations of others 168 LXXIII | always the story of the Amazons. In order to draw the bow 169 XXX | you that La Conjuration d’Ambroise, thus says my porter, is 170 XX | wearing mourning for Queen Amelie, admiring Orphee aux Enfers, 171 CXXII | still were sufficiently amenable to be separated and to be 172 Introd | who with more or less of amenity in their manners are still 173 LV | thought all the time of America, and I wanted to speak like 174 Introd | displacing the Pope.~George Sand, amid these devastating external 175 CCXCIV | a new subject of sadness amidst your spleen.~Come, dear 176 LXXXV | class. I find an enormous amount of Christianity in Socialism. 177 CVII | a child, in a dissecting amphitheatre? But no one is more sensitive 178 Introd | fiction, a meaning more amply expressed in Salammbo, where 179 CLXXXVII | and lets oneself undergo amputation with too much stoicism.~ 180 CXCVII | people, something like the Anabaptists of Munster, like them you 181 CVII | been so far as you in these analyses. There are some infinitely 182 CIV | in an intense way? They analyze very keenly the setting 183 CXCII | incendiaries restored by anarchy? I who have had so much 184 XLIV | this for those strong in anatomy: THERE IS ONLY ONE SEX. 185 CLXXVIII | savage. The blood of my ancesters, the Natchez or the Hurons, 186 Introd | which, like a spiritual ancestor of H. G. Wells, she eagerly 187 Introd | From his mother’s Norman ancestry he inherited the physique 188 CLV | shall we be WISE as the ancients understood it? That, in 189 CCCXVII | respects to Madam Maurice, and-sincerely yours, ex imo.~Gustave Flaubert~ 190 CCLXXXII | keeping two or three pretty anecdotes about this to tell you when 191 CCCIX | bitter! That young woman is anemic to the last degree. She 192 LI | in full spring time.~The anemone Sylvia which I brought from 193 CCCVI | numb gathering violets and anemones.~I have read the manuscript 194 CCLXVIII | excellent wigs and play like angels. I think it will be all 195 LVIII | Jockey Club, at the Cafe Anglais, and at a lawyer’s in turn. 196 XCVI | it. I am waking from that animal-hibernation and you are the first person 197 Introd | included in whatever religion animates a democratic society: “Everyone 198 CLV | tomorrow we shall have the animating sun. We are all just getting 199 Introd | is due to the school of Ann Radcliffe. But the quality 200 XXXVI | and left memories in the annals of the tight-rope and coregrafie 201 CCLXXIII | busy getting settled at Annecy.~I have been EXECRATED by 202 CCXXIV | the same time as that on l’Annee terrible. I shall go to 203 CXCVII | destroy, let us deny, let us annihilate politics, since it divides 204 CXXXV | Ideal! I have also been annihilated in le Figaro and in Paris, 205 CCLXXIII | say, beginning with the announcement of the tryst between Madame 206 XC | October. The management announces it for the 26th of September. 207 CIII | I am writing my little annual novel, when I have one or 208 Introd | offer to George Sand the anodyne of his old philosophical 209 CCI | industrial enterprise (Societe anonyme), each holder votes according 210 Introd | relationship, of a fundamental antagonism of interests and beliefs, 211 Introd | this intercourse of natural antagonists. As M. Faguet observes in 212 XCIII | republican, hid his political antecedents.~My mother is going in a 213 CXXX | M. Saint-Ybars’ contract antedates mine. They had thought le 214 CCCII | supreme impartiality is an anti-human thing, and a novel ought 215 CCLXII | faith.~Have you read the Antichrist? I find that indeed a beautiful 216 XLVII | is your friend’s habit to anticipate them he finds himself short 217 CXCVII | hibernation in the ice, to an anticipated death. And anyway, I could 218 CXCVII | both the poison and the antidote. It is an illusion that 219 Introd | origins of these unreconciled antipathies lie deep beneath the personal 220 CLXXXVIII | negation of right, in a word, antisociability.~The Commune rehabilitates 221 LXXIV | sees in it, Isidore with Antonelli commanding the brigands 222 CCXXXVI | mutually, like the bees and the ants. This concurrence of all 223 CI | the Lepreux de la cite d’Aoste, finds Don Quichotte tedious, 224 LXV | prompts you. The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle 225 CXCVII | revolutionary mandate, of having aped the nobility, of having 226 CCLXXXV | wisdom, of which art at its apogee is only the expression. 227 Introd | early reputation as the apologist for free love, the adversary 228 CXCVII | the shameful spectacle of apostasy. Bourgeoisie, if we want 229 Introd | the country doctor, the apothecary, the insipid clerk, the 230 CXCVII | your own midst. Make an appeal to the future if you are 231 CCL | suit which is going to be appealed. My letter will probably 232 Introd | truth and pathos, deeply appealing to the maternal sympathies 233 Introd | situation and have kept up appearances. But this young wife had 234 CCXCIV | satisfy, nor ambitions to appease. I am sure that you will 235 CXC | still runs as in the old apple trees in my garden, which 236 XXXI | ravishing oasis. Fields, woods, appletrees as in Normandy; not a great 237 LXXIV | all that is perhaps not applicable to a mind like yours which 238 CCXLIII | as he? The same objection applies to the prior, whom I think 239 CCXLVII | conscientiously done) is beyond appraisal, has no commercial value, 240 XXXVI | which you would be worthy of appreciating I shall present myself at 241 CXCVII | leave them to their critical appreciations. I do not have to protest, 242 CCXXXV | on the trip, so gay, so appreciative of the amusements that we 243 Introd | and Gustave Flaubert, if approached merely as a chapter in the 244 Introd | Zola’s; to the last she approaches the shield of human nature 245 XLV | ourselves or something approaching us. What is the difference 246 CXCVII | himself about the blame or the approbation of partizan readers. But 247 CCXXVIII | the production of a really appropriate little gem, I lack the snap 248 CCCV | from time to time cries of approval were heard. All your friends 249 Introd | adherence to order, a sacrifice approved by reason of a part of one’ 250 CCXC | that Homer is spoiled by approximate renderings.~The child is 251 CV | Here, the peaches and the apricots are in flower. It is said 252 Introd | Sainte-Beuve, as early as 1834, apropos of his epicurean Volupte: “ 253 CXCVII | race whose disciplinary aptitudes we admire, the race whose 254 CCLXXIII | which is unnecessary, since Arabelle informs Rousselin that his 255 LXVI | Consultation of lawyers signed: E. Arago, Favre, Berryer, to complain 256 CLXXXIV | which he has become the arbiter of this great problem?~Whatever 257 LXXXVI | Did you see the sand of Arbonne? There is a little Sahara 258 LXXXVII | advice, saw the sands of Arboronne. It is so beautiful that 259 LXX | that at this hour people arc fighting for the pope. Ah! 260 XLI | draw up my epitaph. Et in Arcadia ego, you know, I love you, 261 Introd | and archly asserts her arch-heresy in his teeth. He complains 262 Introd | spent in getting up its archaeological details. But Madame Bovary 263 XVI | uncontestably curious for the archaeologist, have naught for the artist, 264 XVII | animals. A propos of Celtic archaeology, I published in L’Artiste 265 CLXXXIX | kept the tricolor over the Archives all during the Commune? 266 Introd | she loves Flaubert!—and archly asserts her arch-heresy 267 CXXVIII | I have been twice in the Ardennes and in a week or ten days, 268 XCIII | was named M. Fleuriot d’Argentan. I am not any the prouder 269 CLXXXVIII | running to the defiles of the Argonne where there are defiles 270 CLXIX | talk. Aurore chatters and argues. She calls Plauchut, OLD 271 Introd | a very closely reasoned argument. In making the extract I 272 Introd | cause may be better than her arguments and in which depression 273 CXCV | Maurice, his existence is not arid as mine is. Our two letters 274 CXCV | but so many shadows have arisen that now you are not recognizing 275 CCI | waiting till a literary wind arises, as it will never arise 276 Introd | remnant save in science and aristocratic organization. For her, finally, 277 CCXXXVI | course, and a little from an aristocratically intellectual point of view, 278 CCLXX | most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes. There is a man, that fellow! 279 LXXI | I must not budge from my arm-chair till then. That is why I 280 CLXXXVI | the League and the men in armor! Poor France, who will never 281 Introd | even the austere Matthew Arnold in his green and salad days 282 CLXXXVIII | the tradition of Sophie Arnould, like Lagier, roused horror. 283 CLVII | that I meant to depict in Arnoux, Bernard Latte (the former 284 CXXXIII | too truly superior not to arouse envy and you don’t care, 285 CCXVI | the Dernieres Chansons has aroused in Madame Colet a pindaric 286 LXVII | environs, the chateau d’Arques, Limes, what a country! 287 Introd | acknowledged that Flaubert’s arraignment of modern society possesses 288 CXCVII | traitors, and decreed their arrest. They would have been shot 289 XXXIX | me, and when the infant arrives, I am sicker than she is, 290 CCCII | that is what you deny him, arrogantly. He thinks that you scorn 291 CXXXVI | who puffs the books of Arsene Houssaye, won’t write articles 292 XLVII | First, let’s talk of you; “arsenic.” I am sure of it! You must 293 Introd | s last hours, after the arsenical poisoning:~“Emma’s head 294 CCLX | commercial shop-keeping and artisan class, a monarchical effect 295 CCXXXIX | apples of orange trees. Artisans in luxury are useless in 296 XVII | archaeology, I published in L’Artiste in 1858, a rather good hoax 297 XVIII | sleep everywhere, in the ashes, or under a kitchen bench, 298 CXLI | Saint-Rene Taillandier is as asininely pedantic as the Revue. Aren’ 299 CVI | must keep her sensitiveness asleep as long as possible, and 300 Introd | personalities disclose the aspects of their diverse natures 301 Introd | spirit and the grandiose aspirations imparted to the nation by 302 LVI | and his pebbles, and if I aspire to come out from my misery, 303 XXXIII | they existed, they have aspired to one end. If we have a 304 Introd | powers to which he inwardly aspires, or all the sorrows whose 305 CCXXXVI | pity the incendiary and the assassin who fall under the hand 306 Introd | George Sand, for the moment assenting, rejoins: “Men are ferocious 307 CLX | the most proper excuses, asserting to me that “she never had 308 CLXXXV | investigating, people make assertions.~The French Revolution must 309 CCLXX | have! what effrontery! what asses for the most part! I have 310 CCC | sweetness. I am always an assiduous and a patient teacher, and 311 Introd | experiences; and in 1822 she was assigned to her place in the “established 312 CCLXXXIII | ruminate over what one has assimilated in life, sometimes without 313 XXXIX | them. But alas! I cannot assist at any birth and I almost 314 PrefNote | of whom have generously assisted in revising the manuscript.~ 315 CCLXXVIII | I had been taken to the assizes under an accusation of forgery. 316 XLV | to eat alone. I have to associate the idea with someone with 317 IV | I was well punished for associating with the girls from the 318 CXCVII | and legitimate fraternal association, your duty is to enlighten 319 CCCV | METHOD. When I discover a bad assonance or a repetition in one of 320 CCXCIV | own worries, in order to assuage those of others. I am sure 321 C | it. It turns out to have assumed grotesque proportions. As 322 CXCVII | by the imperious need of assuring those whom we leave behind 323 XL | letter in question with an astonishment which duped me.~Poor Marengo! 324 CCCXIII | that the flight of father Athanasius and of Montaret, when they 325 CCCX | in the last number of the Athenaeum there is a very fine article 326 CCLXXXVIII| complexion ought to have lived an athletic life.~Don’t sulk then about 327 CLXXIX | dead, I have suffered so atrociously for six weeks.~My mother 328 CCCII | well and seriously, one attaches oneself to his personality. 329 LVI | have lived with tremendous attachments which overwhelmed me, which 330 CLIV | me, whom all the world is attacking now! I should not have believed 331 CCXLVI | sweetness and poetry. I have attained this end up to a certain 332 CCXXXIX | winter. Every time that I attempted to do anything they dished 333 CXCVII | make me repulse whatever attempts to make me revert to childhood 334 CXLIV | leave my dear nest to go to attend to my miserable profession; 335 Introd | hazardous adventures that attended the defiant unfolding of 336 CCCXIII | see that I have read you attentively! What a pedagogue I make, 337 Introd | whose entire life signally attested the power of a “saving grace,” 338 Introd | talent, she adopts male attire: “I had a sentry-box coat 339 Introd | sort of mind is steadily attracted to the painting of such 340 CCCXVII | one’s grief, however much attraction one finds in doing so.~You 341 CIII | magnifying glass and of its attractions. We are, I think, the two 342 CCXXV | habitation. Paris hardly attracts me any longer. In a little 343 Introd | type,—and must not fear to attribute to it all the powers to 344 CLXII | preface to the Idees de M. Aubray?~How I long to see you and 345 CCLXXVI | friend never leaves the auction rooms now! He is a man with 346 LXXXIV | matter where I am; it is AUDITORY IDIOCY, a new variety. It 347 X | GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 4 Aug., 1866~Dear friend, as I’ 348 CCLXXIX | Orne and the valley of the Auge. I shall have to return 349 CCLXXVI | ago. She sang Iphigenie en Aulide. I can not tell you how 350 Introd | about one flame. There was Aurelien de Seze; Jules Sandeau, 351 CCCV | other classic handy, and Aurora surprised Cruchard in this 352 XXXVI | began in 1804 under the auspices of the celebrated Madame 353 Introd | which bewitched even the austere Matthew Arnold in his green 354 Introd | Academy, who deals somewhat austerely with her religiose enthusiasms 355 CLXXXIII | diatribes on corruption, austerity of habits, etc. Last degree 356 LXXI | have to go sauntering in Auteuil in order to discover certain 357 CCLXX | The censorship of the “autocrat of the north” had formally 358 Introd | recording the results of an autopsy. What can we know of such 359 CCLXXVI | not feel hurt, but this avalanche of foolishness saddens me. 360 CCLVII | addressed to me.~The “Dialogue avec Delacroix” is instructive; 361 Introd | the literary art is the avenue of escape from the meaningless 362 Introd | insult. He developed an aversion to any interruption of his 363 LXV | Madame Lebarbier de Tinan awaits me at the house of M. Lepel-Cointet, 364 CCLXVI | example: the history of Azor (what a name!). He robbed 365 XLIII | to the Mediterranean. Its azure sky quiets and invigorates. 366 CCLVII | there are many pretty a b c phrases.~Thank you for 367 CCLXXXII | of banality, and imbecile babble.~“Europe which hates us, 368 LVIII | earth. We are menaced with a Babylon.~Why not? The INDIVIDUAL 369 LVI | heart, in the midst of this bacchanal? You are wrathful, oh very 370 CLXIX | She calls Plauchut, OLD BACHELOR. And a propos, accept the 371 CI | apples in sour cider, and bacon, are what cure me of the 372 CCXXXII | CCXXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Bagneres de Luchon, 12th July, 1872~ 373 CCXXXIX | After that, I regain my balance. So I think that I am going 374 XXXVI | tight-rope and coregrafie balancer in all countries where I 375 CL | go to the gallery or the balcony seats? Impossible to have 376 LXVII | guitar and should have sung a ballad under your mother’s window. 377 CCXVIII | embryo in the form of a balloon on four feet; (2) a death’ 378 XCVI | enormous indulgence, perhaps banal, for I have had to practice 379 CCLXXXII | of grandeur, of love of banality, and imbecile babble.~“Europe 380 CLXXXVIII | importance, a dressing case, a bandbox, some pipes; but on the 381 CV | till daylight. You see that banished to a desert, we keep up 382 XXI | anxious and wondered if your bank was high enough to protect 383 CCLXVI | see my old top-knot by the baptismal font, beside the chubby-cheeked 384 CCCXII | period of Saint John the Baptist, for I want to describe 385 XCVIII | 15th of December, we are baptizing here our two little girls 386 CXCVII | not an ancient invasion of Barbarians. Tell those who still love 387 CXCI | friend Michel de Bourges, Bardoux, mayor of Clermont-Ferrand.~ 388 CCCVIII | the Acropolis, a perfectly bare wall (the one on the left 389 Introd | characteristics commended by the late Barett Wendell: it is marked in 390 CCCV | especially well played. Little Baretta is a real treasure.~How 391 CXC | You will tell me that the bark undergoes none the less 392 CCLVI | the R. P. Cruchard of the Barnabites, director of the Ladies 393 CCLVI | sleep.~We found here the barodetien folly in full flower again. 394 XXX | and Magny which is also a barometer, shows fair weather.~So 395 CCVII | They made me strangle la Baronne quite as Ruy Blas will strangle 396 CCXVI | authorities” all the most baroque animals. I am in the midst 397 XL | to have crossed the most barren tract. But at the moment 398 CXCIV | who, in the midst of a barricade, submitted to the assaults 399 CXCVII | It does not take root on barricades, we know that now! It is 400 CCXVII | me that the deafness is a barrier to that. Isn’t it a question 401 CXXX | with de la T(our) Saint-Y(bars). I yielded my turn to Aisse. 402 CXLVII | more applauded than hissed. Barton very beautiful, Sarah very 403 Introd | imputed to the human race, the baseness with which his imagination 404 CV | Scapin, Mezzetin, Figaro, Basile, etc., all that is very 405 CXCIX | only one, who had read Bastiat, and that this bourgeois 406 CXCVII | think that one issues from a battle with respect for human rights. 407 Introd | broad canvas a Carthaginian battle-scene or by photographing the 408 CCLXXX | to mythology (George Cox, Baudry translation). You know that? 409 CCLXVI | la Chretienne by the Abbe Bautain. A curious book for a novelist. 410 CCLXII | injustice and folly, you should bawl, froth at the mouth, and 411 XLIII | Countries of Youth, such as the Bay of Naples. Do they make 412 CCCXVIII | idiot comparable to the Bayard of modern times?~I have 413 LXV | see the rollers and the beaches next month if you like, 414 LXVI | his breast, dragged by the beard and hair in order to put 415 XLI | that I read the letter; the bearer said he came from the Hotel 416 Introd | commotion of a romantic spirit beating its wings against the cage 417 CCLXII | Saint-Gratien, in Brie, and in Beauce, hunting for a certain country 418 CCLXXIX | offering a skit to the Beaumarchais theatre.~It is that very 419 CCLVI | But it is high time to beautify myself, not that I have 420 LVIII | hatred that one feels for the bedouin, for the heretic, the philosopher, 421 CLXX | why can’t I live among the Bedouins!~ 422 Introd | the details of a modern bedroom: a brief brightness, night 423 CCXXXVI | studying quite alone at the bedside of my paralyzed grandmother, 424 CCLXXII | frappe, three slices of roast beef, a truffle salad, coffee 425 CCXXXVI | other mutually, like the bees and the ants. This concurrence 426 CCI | against Sainte-Beuve, while begging him to have as much indulgence 427 LXXII | with all his heart, and begs to be remembered to your 428 CCXXII | these first few days. But I beguile the need I feel of being 429 Introd | gentleman, her husband, was behaving as we used to be taught 430 CCLXXIX | will never more before me belch his idiocy. It was at dinner 431 CLXXXVIII | industrial country like Belgium. The disappearance of Paris ( 432 Introd | antagonism of interests and beliefs, resolutely maintained on 433 XCVII | it seem to you that they belittle him too much?~The infinite 434 CCCII | let him not be soiled or belittled by them, and let him go 435 LVI | say mass and to ring the bell for the adoration of the 436 V | beloved brother. You are in belles-lettres and you would have been 437 XXXVI | widow Dodin Rue Lanion, 47, Belleville.~ 438 Introd | leech-gatherers and his Peter Bells. Her exquisite pictures 439 CXXII | beginning to grow in my belly. Your troubadour is naturally 440 CCLI | Bovary and Salammbo have belonged to me and I can sell them. 441 CCLXIV | archeology is superfluous. It belongs to another kind of ecclesiastics. 442 CCLXXXII | imbecility shall we descend? Belot’s last book sold eight thousand 443 CLXXXVIII | lot of people whom I hear bemoaning the war of Paris. For my 444 XVI | There is my oremus and my benediction and I embrace you with all 445 Introd | dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance towards all the 446 XCIX | stupid not to “get some benefit from the opportunity.” Isn’ 447 CLXXVIII | siege to it. Try to get your Berrichons to buck up. Call to them: “ 448 LXVI | signed: E. Arago, Favre, Berryer, to complain of these abominations.”~ 449 Introd | by which I find myself beset, as with those musical airs 450 CCLXXXVII | succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black. It seems to 451 LXV | goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.~ 452 Introd | hands; a kind of white dust besprinkled her lashes, and her eyes 453 CCXVI | amuse myself by looking over bestiaries of the middle ages; looking 454 CCCXII | Madame Lina’s kind note, I betook myself to V. Borie’s yesterday 455 XXVII | side of you which does not betray itself in what you do, something 456 Introd | not to surrender, not to betrayal. The eloquent daughter of 457 CCXXXVII | This vice, by the way, BETRAYING ONE’S FRIENDS IN PUBLIC, 458 CLXX | the sake of fighting.~I bewail the destroyed bridges, the 459 XLVI | any material worries. He bewails what is the least regrettable 460 CXCVII | followed by a little army of bewildered men has occupied momentarily 461 CCXXXII | head).~In the midst of my bewilderment, I embrace you and yours 462 CCLX | a proof of strength that bewilders me, and is a mark of a “ 463 Introd | and in George Sand which bewitched even the austere Matthew 464 CLXXXVII | rob it? Your books, your bibelots, did you find them all? 465 XCIV | of patients escaped from Bicetre.~I don’t at all know what 466 CCII | now to distract myself? Bichat and Cabanis, who amuse me 467 LXXIV | his first philosopher. He bids me embrace you for him.~ 468 XLV | people whose hearts grow bigger with age. I was much drier 469 CCXCV | them the overflow of my bile.~For the last six months, 470 CCXX | Why should the sight of a bill put me in a rage? It verges 471 CLXXXIV | should like to have five billions in order to chase them away! 472 CX | say that you are paying bills and that you are vexed. 473 Introd | than a satisfaction for the biographical appetite, which, indeed, 474 CCXCVIII | since I passed my seventieth birthday, I have been very much upset, 475 XLIX | discussion all the time were Bismarck and the Luxembourg. I was 476 XLII | troubadour has been tempted to bite the dust. He is still in 477 CCI | people whom the dogs have bitten.~That will not change so 478 XL | apricot tunic howling at the black-gowned students from the top of 479 CCLXXIII | instant that he notices the blackguardism, he is elected. Then his 480 CCLXX | dead friends, I wallow in blackness! Is it the result of a too 481 CCXVI | scabbard must be solid, for the blade is well sharpened; but everything 482 CXCI | him: not a word! Those gay blades behave towards one like 483 V | is more to be pitied than blamed for there are still men 484 CCLXXXII | rest.~Of course every one blames me for letting my play be 485 CXCVII | simple, I waited. While blaming the means I did not want 486 CCLVI | go to Saint Gervais, to bleach my nose and to strengthen 487 CCLXXIX | me to, for the purpose of bleaching my face and calming my nerves! 488 CXCVII | your epitaph. This pale and bleeding, wounded thing that is called 489 CLXXII | trouble. Would formidable bleedings be useful?~Ah! we intellectuals! 490 Introd | estimable. For yourself, you blend with the beautiful a heap 491 CCI | story of the penitent thief blessed because he has repented! 492 CCCXVI | used to talk of you as of a blessing.~And when you shall have 493 Introd | Bournisien from time to time blew his nose noisily and Homais’ 494 CCLVII | very ugly.~I am perhaps blinding myself, but I think that 495 Introd | consolation, which the rest of us blindly grope for: “He is imbecile, 496 CC | side; she is on the side of blindness, ignorance and folly. Oh! 497 CXLV | yesterday! But your friendship blinds you, dear good master. I 498 CCXXXII | and yours also. Your old blockhead who loves you.~ 499 CCLXXVII | Ridicule the critics, they are blockheads. The present century does 500 XXXIV | to be sure, but in full bloom. The little good which remains 501 CCXXXVI | beginning of my intellectual blooming, when, studying quite alone