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2503 CLXIV | a treason to them and an ingratitude. Tell me that you are calm 2504 CCLVII | what he thought of father Ingres.~I am not entirely of your 2505 LXI | which keeps him from his inheritance. His agreeable father stole 2506 CXCVII | if he finds a purse, or inherits from an uncle.~You can well 2507 CXCVII | speak a word of life, if the iniquities of your mysteries are sealed 2508 CXCVII | deliberate and act in favor of an iniquitous principle. If you are the 2509 CXCVIII | indicate you by even an initial, for I do not want to argue 2510 XXI | for all who need to be initiated; when one is not understood, 2511 Introd | twice—in compliance with the injunctions of his “dear master”; but 2512 XXVII | and does not annoy me—NOR INJURE ME AT ALL. What style! Luckily 2513 CCXII | not true. Bouilhet never injured the bourgeois of Rouen; 2514 CCLVIII | he does. I hope that his injury is not serious! such a thing 2515 XXXI | the “old troubadour of the Inn clock, who still sings and 2516 Introd | natural goodness; he, upon innate depravity. She urges her 2517 LXXXIX | not armed with humor and inner zest for the study of human 2518 Introd | England and in France. The innermost origin of the early long 2519 CCXXXIII | to being trimmed by the innkeepers. Life is like that, and 2520 LIX | These are the intervals of innocence in which forgetfulness of 2521 CCL | has been this: not to make innovations, but to push to its greatest 2522 CCXLIX | cough abominably, and I ruin innumerable pocket-handkerchiefs! When 2523 CLXIV | to a condition of forced inoffensiveness, without merit in consequence, 2524 CCLXVI | which makes the first act inordinately long.~I did this work in 2525 XCIV | continually the assembling of insane people.~The censorship has 2526 CCCXVI | need of talking of her, insatiably!~Embrace Madam Maurice for 2527 Introd | her a nom de guerre; the inscrutable Merimee, who made no one 2528 CCCI | but languidly. I see them insensible when I am ravaged with admiration 2529 Introd | with the first, sometimes inseparably fuses with it, and ultimately 2530 LXXIII | followed the days of June) to insert a panegyric about him a 2531 CCVII | having wanted to advertise by INSERTING an incendiary tirade! I 2532 Introd | is beginning to feel the insidious siege of years. She can 2533 CCCIV | moral truth, the direct insight into human feelings. I don’ 2534 CXCVII | nobility, of having usurped its insignia, of having taken possession 2535 Introd | significance—or, rather, of the insignificance—of human life; and the “ 2536 XLIX | sensibilities are sharper; a lot of insignificant things make me suffer. Pardon 2537 Introd | doctor, the apothecary, the insipid clerk, the vapid sentimental 2538 CCI | I continually repeat my insistence on justice! Do you see how 2539 CCXC | except Leconte de Lisle’s, insisting that Homer is spoiled by 2540 CLXX | He thinks Prussia was too insolent and wants to “avenge himself.” 2541 LXIV | of the state I am now in. Insomnia is the devil; in the daytime 2542 XCIV | tomorrow these gentlemen will inspect the costumes, which perhaps 2543 CXCVII | chiefs, your governors, your inspirers, are they all brigands and 2544 XXXI | warmth of my fire. They had installed themselves there to die, 2545 CCCXIII | sleepless night. I read it instantly, at one fell swoop, only 2546 Introd | from the conflict—turns instinctively to her peasant doggedly, 2547 CCXXXIX | with the Odeon. It is an institution where I suffered horribly 2548 Introd | custom and circumstance and institutions. The external form of the 2549 CXCIX | most important thing is to instruct the rich, who, on the whole, 2550 XXXIII | are absolutely nothing but instruments, it is still a charming 2551 CLX | never had any intention of insulting genius.”~Certainly, I shall 2552 CLXXXVI | thousand years; while the insurrection in Paris is, to my eyes, 2553 CCCII | gravitation of all tangible and intangible things towards the necessity 2554 CCXXXVI | in comparison with their integrity, he counted his personality 2555 XVI | must forgive the abnormal intemperance of one who has just been 2556 CCXLIII | not too generous, nor too intemperate, nor too much of a vaudevillist. 2557 CCXXXIII | who likes animals better, intends to take her rabbits, her 2558 CCLXXVI | symphony in which each one is intent on his own instrument. I 2559 CCCI | I have never tried to do intentionally the one nor the other. I 2560 Introd | critical faculties in this intercourse of natural antagonists. 2561 CLXXXV | splendid! The government interferes in natural rights now, it 2562 LX | them in their rocky coves; intermarrying, inoffensive and sombre, 2563 CLXVIII | theological things, which I have intermingled with a little of Plutarch 2564 CXCV | It will be divided by the Internationals, the Jesuits of the future. 2565 CXCVII | if I have been wrongly interpreted, it is for me to explain 2566 CCXLIV | a week. I was afraid of interrupting your train of thought and 2567 Introd | developed an aversion to any interruption of his work, and such tension 2568 CIV | That is why I dread so much interruptions in the daily grind. I could 2569 Introd | advent and hers there is an interval of a generation, during 2570 CLXXXV | in natural rights now, it intervenes in contracts between individuals. 2571 CCC | know that you criticise the intervention of the personal doctrine 2572 XXV | eye.~G. Sand~Five minutes’ interview and that’s all the inconvenience. 2573 CLXIV | that; for to my heart’s intimacy was joined a religious reverence 2574 Introd | so we must compress the intimately related history of her works 2575 CCXXXIX | me. He is the last of my intimates to go. He closes the list. 2576 CCXCV | your Cruchard has become an intolerable old codger, because he has 2577 Introd | of art he exhibited the intolerance of weakness in others and 2578 CCLIV | On the day when a little intoxication is no longer necessary for 2579 Introd | INTRODUCTION~The correspondence of George 2580 CCXXVIII | quieter, without callers or intruders! More than ever, I should 2581 Introd | her peasant with a kind of intuition that he is a symbol of faith, 2582 CLIV | approach of old age. The shadow invades me, as Victor Hugo would 2583 CCXLIV | have to do, he tells us invariably that the thing is bad or 2584 LX | since the time of the great invasions from Provence, and perhaps 2585 Introd | but for expressing with invasive energy that personal and 2586 CCII | torrents of abuse, cataracts of invectives. Why? I wonder myself.~What 2587 CLVI | either; it is not my style. I invent. The public, who does not 2588 XLIV | herself better with games she invents, than with those one suggests 2589 LXXI | to be relieved from a few inversions, there are too many repetitions 2590 CCLXXIII | his wife has a lover; (3) inverted the order of the scenes 2591 CLXXXV | without discussion. Instead of investigating, people make assertions.~ 2592 CLXXXVIII | to take up science, and investigation. The only reasonable thing ( 2593 Introd | labor of his unfinished investigations. There is no important distinction 2594 Introd | first-rate sociological investigator is three-fourths of a novelist. 2595 CCXCI | that go all over me, an invincible melancholy, the feeling 2596 CXLVII | Do say yes, it is I who invite you, and we shall have a 2597 CXLVII | able to go to you. He was invited to the prince’s.~A word 2598 CXCVII | universal suffrage, and yet it invokes this suffrage in Paris to 2599 CXCVII | by brute force, without invoking any other right than that 2600 CCLXXXIV | is the last word in the involuntary grotesque. In other respects, 2601 LVI | prosperity, and does civilization involve this sickly and cowardly 2602 CCLXXII | some money, but as my fall involves neither art nor sentiment 2603 CCLXXXI | opinion about him; inde irae. However, it is impossible 2604 CCXLVII | the exaggerations about my IRE. Don’t believe that I am 2605 CVI | to settle his estate, an irksome task added to a sorrow, 2606 CCLXXII | Lara.” Thereupon a burst of ironical laughter, etc.~And moreover 2607 CCCII | vanity, to ambition, to irrationality. They pitied her; art required 2608 CVII | natures and hard natures, irremediably so. And then the same sight, 2609 CCXCIV | to your niece. Is it then irreparable? Her husband is very young 2610 CXCIII | my reason and in my own IRREPROACHABILITY. I feel the great bonds 2611 CCXLV | perhaps more finished; more irreproachable as a work.~I read last week 2612 CIV | break, which seems to me irrevocable. Sainte-Beuve was outraged 2613 CXCIX | believe that she will be irrevocably lost. Free compulsory education 2614 CCLII | badly arranged, painful, irritating for everyone, but do not 2615 CIV | made these protestations of isidorian love, which humiliated me 2616 CCLX | imbecile stationed on the island in front of me has been 2617 CXXV | settled itself. It is only in isolating oneself a little that one 2618 XLV | that I was taken with an itch for movement, and I walked 2619 CVI | Nature acts progressively, itus et reditus. It goes on and 2620 IV | IV. To M. Flobert (Justave) 2621 IX | IX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 2622 CCLVII | defend my point of view.~“J’allume le fagot,” etc., 2623 CLXII | I long to see you and to jabber with you!~ 2624 XVI | their long hair, their jackets with pockets under the arms, 2625 CXCVII | up the tradition of the Jacobins, it usurps the papal social 2626 CLXXI | to transform itself into Jacquerie; but we shall fight with 2627 CCXXXVIII | an exuberant nature in a jail, you are making out of a 2628 CXCVII | and struggle between the jailer and the police.~All France 2629 Introd | Godwin joined Byron and Jane Clairmont in Switzerland— 2630 XLVI | very proud, having been a Jansenist, his heart has cooled in 2631 CCLXV | suffered liver trouble, jaundice, rash, fever, in short he 2632 Introd | Henry James with studious jauntiness, asserts that in the heat 2633 Introd | lion, a dying woman, the jeering of ribald mercenaries, the 2634 CCXCV | bore you with my eternal jeremiads. I repeat myself like a 2635 Introd | society. Like one whose cruel jest has been taken more seriously 2636 CXCV | the Internationals, the Jesuits of the future. But those 2637 CLXXXVIII | rehabilitates murderers, quite as Jesus pardoned thieves, and they 2638 XXXI | speaks except the little jet of the spring which ceaselessly 2639 CCCX | I find it perfect, two jewels! Marianne moved me deeply 2640 LVIII | on Monday; I was at the Jockey Club, at the Cafe Anglais, 2641 CCCXII | researches on the period of Saint John the Baptist, for I want 2642 VI | diamonds which adorn your face.~Jorje Sens~The elder Goulard is 2643 CCXLIX | swallowed ALL the odious Joseph de Maistre. They have saddled 2644 CCLXXV | public of other days, and journalism has not the least literary 2645 CCLXXV | really, I am no more of a journalist than he is, and I need his 2646 Introd | namely, joy, the spontaneous joyousness of her own nature. The first 2647 XXXV | don’t believe in these Don Juans who are Byrons at the same 2648 LXXXVI | and the life of Punch and Judy. A TRAVELLING THEATRICAL 2649 CLXVIII | lost him in this one.~One juggles with empty words on this 2650 CCLXXIII | between Madame Rousselin and Julien and, making Rousselin a 2651 CCLXXX | should not ask from the jumble of appreciation called CRITICISM, 2652 CCLVIII | forehead and my heart as jumpy as a pregnant woman; it 2653 Introd | was seventeen years her junior, the flamboyance of youth 2654 IV | IV. To M. Flobert (Justave) M. of Letters Boulevard 2655 XLIII | anchorite to me is perhaps a juster comparison than you think.~ 2656 XVI | or to the left. His end justifies all.~It is for him to know 2657 CCLXXIX | CCLXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND Kalt-Bad. Righi. Friday, 3d July, 2658 PrefNote | Sherman, and Professor Kenneth McKenzie, all of whom have 2659 LXVIII | quiet once more since the Kerveguen incident has died its beautiful 2660 Introd | faith, that he holds the keys to a consolation, which 2661 LXXXVI | dull valets, and with being kicked from behind. He is detestable, 2662 LXVI | treatments inflicted on Barbes, kicks on his breast, dragged by 2663 CCCIX | Salcede. The narrative of the kidnapping of the child, the trip in 2664 CCCVI | well pleased with these killers of men whom they call heroes 2665 CCXLV | would make father Thiers king of France. If Thiers were 2666 CXCII | Isidore or Henry V. or the kingdom of incendiaries restored 2667 XVIII | in the ashes, or under a kitchen bench, like a stable dog. 2668 CCLXXX | nothing. You tell me that they KNOCK you too much. I read only 2669 CCLXXIX | think that they have been knocking me a bit too much of late; 2670 CCXI | pedagogy teaches us to look for knots in bulrushes. In short, 2671 XXXIII | coquetry? It does not seem labored. What I find difficult is 2672 XXXV | work with our brains. The laborer who works his land and his 2673 Introd | cruel pain, I continue my labour like a true working-man, 2674 XV | September, 1866~Send me back the lace shawl. My faithful porter 2675 CV | white satin fringed and laced with silver. I spent three 2676 CCI | Dumas dreams the glory of Lacordaire, or rather of Ravignan! 2677 CCCII | you feel you are on the ladder, you will mount very quickly. 2678 CLXXXVIII | of Sophie Arnould, like Lagier, roused horror. You have 2679 CCLXII | that goes from Loupe to Laigle. After that, good night.~ 2680 CXCV | knows how to fight for its lair and its living). It will 2681 XCIII | Pouchet suggested gerre of the lakes (genus, Gerris). Well! neither 2682 LXV | literary woman, Juliette Lamber. If you were lovely, lovely, 2683 CCXXXII | very old, decidedly! Doctor Lambron, the physician of this place, 2684 CLV | Maurice quite upset by lameness with a cold, I taken again 2685 LXXI | How deplorable and how lamentably grotesque are affairs in 2686 CCXXXVI | light proceeding from two lamps, and I had PRINCIPLES. Don’ 2687 CLXXXVIII | club the manufacture of lances to fight against the breech-loaders!~ 2688 LXV | of M. Lepel-Cointet, the landowner; I shall stay there the 2689 LXXIV | and flowers, rocks, fine landscapes, children also, the family, 2690 CCCI | my companions pursue but languidly. I see them insensible when 2691 XXXVI | Lirondelle widow Dodin Rue Lanion, 47, Belleville.~ 2692 CLXXI | a revolver and I with a lantern. The trees are losing their 2693 CCLXXII | Hernani, and I wanted to be Lara.” Thereupon a burst of ironical 2694 CIII | women are boorish (pignouf lardes) to a high degree, even 2695 Introd | Madame Bovary.”~Now, the largest interest of this correspondence 2696 LXXXVI | wounding, one can use the lash without hurting, if the 2697 Introd | white dust besprinkled her lashes, and her eyes were beginning 2698 C | of it, but they have not lasted. Existence where one ignores 2699 LVIII | yourself for a labor that lasts six months!~I have enough 2700 CCXXXII | That is unendurable for us Latins.~Mister —— is certainly 2701 CCII | drown my contemporaries in latrines, or at least deluge their 2702 CLVII | depict in Arnoux, Bernard Latte (the former editor), whom 2703 CCCIX | of life I should become laughable, that is all. For you preach 2704 CVII | when one has them, not to launch into abuse, every week, 2705 CXXXV | I have received very few laurels, up to now, and no rose 2706 CXCI | been given to the Berton, Laurent, Bernard company, do you?~ 2707 CCLVII | the repetitions have to be lavish, if movement is desired, 2708 LXI | terminating by a compromise the law-suit which keeps him from his 2709 CCXX | almost gotten me into a lawsuit. The story of la Fontaine 2710 CCLXXIV | STRUGGLE, and as Cruchard has lawsuits in horror, I have withdrawn 2711 LXVI | in-pace. Consultation of lawyers signed: E. Arago, Favre, 2712 LXXIV | that circles about; sewing layettes, reading the papers with 2713 CLXXXVIII | have been taught to curse Lazarus, who was not a bad rich 2714 Introd | intelligence and renounced leadership to embrace universal suffrage, 2715 CCVII | foolish life I have been leading for two and a half months! 2716 CXCVII | They certainly did not lean on the middle class, which 2717 CXCVIII | whom the need of your soul leans, Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, 2718 CCC | wonderfully, and I am taking a new lease on life.~What’s our next 2719 CLXXXV | s flat! The question of leases especially, is splendid! 2720 CXIII | master shoemaker who has a LEATHER plaster on his right eye, 2721 LXV | where my friend Madame Lebarbier de Tinan awaits me at the 2722 CCI | Balzac as he had for Jules Lecomte. He answered me, calling 2723 LXVIII | Sainte-Beuve is preparing a lecture on the press law. He is 2724 Introd | to his Michaels and his leech-gatherers and his Peter Bells. Her 2725 CXCVII | dispenses with the appearance of legality that it intended to give 2726 CCCVI | I love you. Do have your legend published quickly, so that 2727 CCI | bit of Victor Hugo in la Legende des siecles, where a sultan 2728 CCCI | repetitions. I would give all the legends of Gavarni for certain expressions 2729 CCLX | tolerable to me only by legerdemain. Or else one must give oneself 2730 CCLXVIII | ruined the role of a little legitimist ragamuffin, so that the 2731 CCLXXII | some insults against the legitimists.~My actors played superbly, 2732 CLX | Institute. The Arsenal library lends me books that I read in 2733 XX | a boatman on the Nile, a leno in Rome at the time of the 2734 Introd | countenance, strong-featured with leonine moustaches; and a barbaric 2735 LXV | awaits me at the house of M. Lepel-Cointet, the landowner; I shall 2736 CI | Chateaubriand, admires very much the Lepreux de la cite d’Aoste, finds 2737 Introd | or the description of the leprous Hanno, or the physical surrender 2738 XCIII | grandfather was, after M. Lescure, the head of the Vendee 2739 CXXIX | then, with age, one’s needs lessen. I suffer no longer from 2740 Introd | temper, habitually somewhat lethargic but irritable, and, when 2741 CCX | Dernieres Chansons, Aisse and my Lettre au Conseil municipal de 2742 LXXXVI | without prejudice to the Lettres d’un Voyageur in the Revue, 2743 Introd | and predestined her for a leveller by preparing in her an instinctive 2744 LI | LI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 14 2745 Introd | between her successive liaisons for an elusive felicity, 2746 XCVII | Revolution, which had not liberated itself from the middle ages, 2747 CXCVII | false social revolution. Liberation of the lowest instincts, 2748 Introd | is the poetising of that liberative eighteenth century philosophy 2749 CXXXVIII | message: “To Girardin.” La Liberte will publish your article, 2750 Introd | In morals something of a libertine, in matters of art he exhibited 2751 LV | has just been appointed librarian at Rouen.~Since the rumours 2752 CXCVII | will see what will be its license! The people of Paris will 2753 CLXXVI | have been (since Sunday) lieutenant of my company, I drill my 2754 CCLXXXII | where one can contemplate a life-size photograph of Alexander 2755 Introd | sides. George Sand, with her lifelong passion for propaganda and 2756 CXCVII | place, those who rush in light-heartedly are the vain or the greedy 2757 LII | LII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Friday, 2758 LIII | LIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1867 (?)~ 2759 | likely 2760 Introd | one readily observes the likeness in the subjects, which are 2761 CLXV | write. But I have no more liking for it; the fascination 2762 Introd | love emancipated from human limitations, a love exalted to the height 2763 XXVI | the point of coming to our lips. All the doors between us 2764 XXXVI | Victoire Potelet~called Marengo Lirondelle widow Dodin Rue Lanion, 2765 CCXXXIX | intimates to go. He closes the list. Whom shall I see now when 2766 CCXII | Dernieres Chansons. What a listener! What a critic! He dazzled 2767 LX | always her ear and her heart listening when she is away from Aurore, 2768 XXXIII | plays my old harp as it lists. It has its HIGH NOTES, 2769 Introd | Pagello; Michel Euraed; Liszt; Chopin, whom she loved 2770 CCXXIV | Nimes where Lina and the littlest one are. I shall write to 2771 LIV | LIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 2772 CCLXXXVII | you now, for no one has a livelier sense than I of my unbearableness.~ 2773 CCLXV | last up again. He suffered liver trouble, jaundice, rash, 2774 LIX | LIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2775 Introd | infinite masses, an enormous load, were weighing upon her.~“ 2776 CCCVIII | three others that have been loaned to me for a long time; I 2777 CCLXXII | slandered me eloquently in the lobbies. The “bravos” of a devoted 2778 CLXV | for the ladies, “my little locality” furnishes none of them, 2779 LXXXII | morning.~I am charmingly located on the Luxembourg garden.~ 2780 CCLXXVII | seem interesting I shall lock it up. It will have amused 2781 XVIII | they opened the galgal of Lockmariaker and cleared away the ground 2782 XLIV | have not the moral need of locomotion AS A HABIT. I used to think 2783 CCCXIII | two or three ready-made locutions, such as “break the ice.” 2784 CLVII | portrait; (1) because of her loftiness of mind, her taste, her 2785 CLXXIX | to Rouen. My niece is in London. My brother is busy with 2786 CCCV | absolutely bored me to death; I longed to get to the end. What 2787 CXCIII | I feel the great bonds loosened and, as it were, broken. 2788 CLXXXVIII | No! the Prussians did not loot my house. They HOOKED some 2789 CCLXXXVII | letter from Maurice, so the Lord be praised!~What to tell 2790 CXCI | behave towards one like great lords, which is charming. I don’ 2791 XXVIII | looking, the ladies lift their lorgnons at him, and it depends only 2792 CLXXXIII | have gone through great losses. I have wept a great deal. 2793 CCLXXI | that it is a ticket in a lottery. It is agreeable to succeed; 2794 CXXI | 1848, demanded the death of Louis-Philippe “without a trial.” That 2795 Introd | 1846 to 1854—that with Mme. Louise Colet, a woman of letters, 2796 CCLXII | the road that goes from Loupe to Laigle. After that, good 2797 CCIX | and vindictive man these louts would be less spiteful and 2798 Introd | and only one, important love-affair, extending from 1846 to 2799 Introd | since almost all novels are love-stories. According to this theory ( 2800 LXXXV | observance of the Sabbath, a love-story entitled, I think, Marie 2801 LXXXVI | The little girls are the loveliest thing about it all. Gabrielle 2802 CCLXXIII | yours: we ought to have: (1) lowered the curtain after the electoral 2803 CXCVII | revolution. Liberation of the lowest instincts, impotence of 2804 IV | you left there. It is the lowness of that lady’s conduct and 2805 CX | their affairs. She is a loyal and excellent woman, very 2806 CCXII | system. Frankness is part of loyalty; why should it be less perfect 2807 XXVII | INJURE ME AT ALL. What style! Luckily I am not writing for Buloz.~ 2808 CCXXXI | Saint-Sauveur? Heavens! How lucky one is to travel and to 2809 XXIV | HUSBAND: “That is called luminous points,” and so on for an 2810 XXI | It was the opinion of the Lundi or the thesis of that day. 2811 CLXX | Hobbes was right: Homo homini lupus.~I have begun Saint-Antoine, 2812 LXXXVI | that in every age it is a lure when one sees only the tender 2813 CLXXI | famine threatens, poverty is lurking about while waiting to transform 2814 CCXXVII | Monday, 3 June, 1872, Rue Gay Lussac, 5~I am in Paris, and for 2815 XLII | civilized, more naturally luxurious, and more easily good than 2816 LV | LV. TO GEORGE SAND~I am worried 2817 LVI | LVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2818 LVII | LVII. TO GEORGE SAND Paris, Friday 2819 LVIII | LVIII. TO GEORGE SAND~I stayed 2820 LX | LX. TO Gustave Flaubert Nohant, 2821 LXI | LXI. To GUSTAVE FLATUBERT Nohant, 2822 LXII | LXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2823 LXIII | LXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2824 LXIV | LXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2825 LXIX | LXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2826 LXV | LXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2827 LXVI | LXVI. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master,~ 2828 LXVII | LXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2829 LXVIII | LXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND~At last, 2830 LXX | LXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2831 LXXI | LXXI. TO GEORGE SAND 1st November, 2832 LXXII | LXXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 2833 LXXIII | LXXIII. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday 2834 LXXIV | LXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2835 LXXIX | LXXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2836 LXXV | LXXV. TO GEORGE SAND 1st January, 2837 LXXVI | LXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 2838 LXXVII | LXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2839 LXXVIII | LXXVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2840 LXXX | LXXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~I shall 2841 LXXXI | LXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2842 LXXXII | LXXXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2843 LXXXIII | LXXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 2844 LXXXIV | LXXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2845 LXXXIX | LXXXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2846 LXXXV | LXXXV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 2847 LXXXVI | LXXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 2848 LXXXVII | LXXXVII. TO GEORGE SAND Dieppe, 2849 LXXXVIII | LXXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 2850 CCLXXVII | present century does not like lyricism. Let us wait for the reaction, 2851 XXXIV | Odeon who plays Macduff in Macbeth? Dugueret? She would like 2852 XXXIV | actress at the Odeon who plays Macduff in Macbeth? Dugueret? She 2853 CCXCVII | to patch up the physical machine. Here with us it is as warm 2854 LVI | under the first revolution a maddening fluid which inspired one 2855 Introd | authors of Far from the Madding Crowd and The Mill on the 2856 XCI | by one of my friends, a magistrate), on the Revolution in the 2857 Introd | of the day’s work and not magnify them into the mountainous 2858 Introd | middle years, was supplied mainly by Saint-Simon, Lamennais, 2859 XLVIII | entitled Giovanni Freppa ou les Maioliques.~Oh! what luck! While writing 2860 LXXI | many repetitions of ALORS, MAIS and ET. The labor is too 2861 CCXLIX | ALL the odious Joseph de Maistre. They have saddled us enough 2862 CCLVII | charmed me.~In the “Idees d’un maitre d’ecole,” I admire your 2863 CCCV | daughter. Maubant is too majestic, and the actor who plays 2864 LXXXVII | painting would then reach the majesty of the law,—and the precision 2865 Introd | of indignation, made four major charges of folly against 2866 CLXXI | fight with the Prussians. Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre!~You 2867 CXCVII | sentimental folly or natural maliciousness—there was all that in them— 2868 CXCVIII | of it. Although you are a mandarin, I do not think that you 2869 CXCVII | dignity of our revolutionary mandate, of having aped the nobility, 2870 Introd | beneath the abundance of his mane, were widely spread apart, 2871 CCCI | that the artist should not manifest anything of his own feelings, 2872 CLXXXVIII | die out, it is the last manifestation of the Middle Ages. The 2873 CCCII | is only an effect. Happy manifestations proceed only from an emotion, 2874 CCCII | long as one is young, it manifests itself with anguish. You 2875 Introd | the Christian sense, is a manly acceptance of moral law 2876 XCIV | perform incomprehensible manoeuvres. Still the dream. One has 2877 CCCXIV | is in the country, at Le Mans, so that I am in a state 2878 CXCVII | hands, a fold of the starry mantle of the future, and you drape 2879 CLXXXVIII | who proposed to a club the manufacture of lances to fight against 2880 CCLI | continues to be “in the marasmus,” as M. Prudhomme says, 2881 CCXVIII | than the Vie Parisienne of Marcelin; never mind! I shall end 2882 CCLXX | finished the Gaule poetique of Marchangy (the enemy of Beranger). 2883 Introd | crucified lion:~“They were marching through a wide defile, hedged 2884 Introd | life, beginning with La Mare au Diable, there develops 2885 VII | with dear and interesting Marguerite Thuillier who is also going 2886 CCCIII | performance of the revival of the Mariage de Victorine, a play of 2887 LXXXV | love-story entitled, I think, Marie et Maxime. One must know 2888 CCLIII | Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme. It ought to be 2889 CCXLIV | republic of letters is only a market in which one sells books. 2890 CCI | harshly than M. Courbet, Maroteau is condemned to death like 2891 CXXXV | and Sarcey compares me to Marquis de Sade, whom he confesses 2892 CCXLIII | over the portrait of the Marquise de Francqueville in her 2893 LXXIV | the end the widow Euphemia marries the Grand Turk, the only 2894 CLXXVII | myself struck to my very marrow!~If I were twenty years 2895 CCXXXIX | for living with a woman, marrying as you advise me to do that 2896 LV | one sees on the Champ de Mars. Never mind; someone who 2897 CLXXI | infamous; that authorized Marseillaise, a sacrilege. Men are ferocious 2898 CCXIX | universelle directed by Amedee Marteau. Discuss that with Charles 2899 CCCIX | first night of the Prix Martin, a piece of buffoonery that, 2900 CCCXVI | in Paris the anguish of Martine![Footnote: George Sand’s 2901 Introd | artistic conscience” as “the martyr of literary style.” In morals 2902 CCLXXXVI | grub, and describe your martyrdom to us; there is a fine book 2903 LIX | she is getting on! What a marvel is the development of a 2904 LXVIII | Tuesday with Renan. He was marvellously witty and eloquent, and 2905 CCCXVI | with Aurore and to kill M. Marx.[Footnote: A reporter for 2906 LXXXIX | individuals whom the fiction is to mask, there is much to rage about. 2907 CCLVII | I have strengthened the massacre at Alexandria and clarified 2908 CXCVII | people of Paris that has massacred the prisoners, destroyed 2909 CLXXVII | where one does not talk of massacres, where one is not obliged 2910 Introd | Sentimentale “elaborately and massively dreary”; and he briefly 2911 CIV | me every day, is to see a master-piece and a disgrace put on the 2912 LXXXVI | They contain a mine of master-pieces of genre. That made me love 2913 CCC | submitted to the event and never mastered it. Well, I think that the 2914 Introd | and Salammbo. These two masterpieces disclose to reflection, 2915 XVI | studied and painted with mastery. What an odd person who 2916 Introd | trousers and waist-coat to match. With a grey hat and a huge 2917 Introd | man who might fitly have matched her spirit; and by the entire 2918 V | this young man whom the matches killed, but the real guilty 2919 Introd | girl and her coarse hunting mate; and they had grown wide 2920 XXXIII | not be spiritualist nor materialist, you say, but one should 2921 Introd | intellectuals”—all our materialistic thinkers hard-shell and 2922 CCCI | good letter of the 18th, so maternally tender, has made me reflect 2923 CCXLV | week the Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian. How 2924 LXXXVII | praised Maurice. Princess Matilde told me that she thought 2925 Introd | bewitched even the austere Matthew Arnold in his green and 2926 CXCVII | have doubted it, because maturity has not brought you any 2927 CCCV | Antoine and his daughter. Maubant is too majestic, and the 2928 Introd | Goncourts, Daudet, Zola, and Maupassant and the applause of such 2929 CCXXXIX | enough! “Hide thy life,” maxim of Epictetus. My whole ambition 2930 CCLXIII | but the flowering of the meadow saffron always warns me 2931 CCXXV | that is left to us is in meadowland, and in order to divide 2932 XCIX | French Revolution, after my meals, to aid digestion. I have 2933 Introd | avenue of escape from the meaningless chaos of existence—it is 2934 | meantime 2935 CCXCIV | and the worth of men is measured according to their energy, 2936 LXXXI | giving up trying to eat REAL MEAT, I have found again a strong 2937 CCXXXVI | you have the uncomplicated mechanism of my thought.~I have the 2938 CCCV | before going to bed the Medea of Euripides, as I had no 2939 CCLX | reading l’Histoire de la Medecine by Daremberg, which amuses 2940 Introd | detachment, that air as of a medical examiner, recording the 2941 CCXCIX | mountain. Everything appears mediocre beside that prodigious felow.~ 2942 XLIII | have the desire, to the Mediterranean. Its azure sky quiets and 2943 CXXXI | the few survivors of the Medusa’s raft are disappearing!~ 2944 CCLXXIII | curtain after the electoral meeting and put the entire half 2945 LXXIII | till later the agricultural meetings; in short, if the head had 2946 CCXCV | attacked by a well defined melancholia. I should be resigned to 2947 LVI | physically; and I fall into melancholies of honey and roses which 2948 CCXVI | played except for Sarah. Melingue is a sleep-walking drain-man, 2949 Introd | grandfathers, George Sand in the mellow autumn of her life is for 2950 CCXVII | get worse, and his mucous membrane has been so often the seat 2951 CLXIV | of sore throat, without membranes this time, and without danger. 2952 CCXVII | abscesses and tend to become membranous. He has not been in danger, 2953 LXXI | dried up with impatience.” (Memoires de l’Academie de Saint-Quentin.)~ 2954 LVIII | out of the earth. We are menaced with a Babylon.~Why not? 2955 CCL | be incomplete, but never mendacious. With this I embrace you, 2956 CCXXXIX | to the mistake of Catulle Mendes, who sent me a telegram 2957 LX | spoke to a young man who was mending the meshes in a net very 2958 XVI | fed up with dolmens and menhirs and we have fallen on fetes 2959 CLXXXVIII | years in an extraordinary mental state. The success of la 2960 CCLXXII | it he supped even better. Menu: two dozen oysters from 2961 CXCVII | stayed in Paris were the merchant and the workman, those two 2962 Introd | spectacle and the same hard merciless externality that distinguish 2963 CXCVII | in the heart that has not merited the outrage. That heart 2964 LXII | Footnote: Mademoiselle Merquem.] but I don’t see it yet 2965 LX | man who was mending the meshes in a net very cleverly; 2966 CCLXXIII | have been EXECRATED by the Messrs. Villemessant and Buloz, 2967 CCLXXXII | of the footlights (pretty metaphor) and that “braving the publicity 2968 CCLXI | elevation of two thousand meters at Sancy, which combining 2969 CCLXXXII | was even “direful,” and “methought” I should die of despair; 2970 CCC | depicting them, with deliberate meticulous concealment of your personal 2971 CV | again as Cassandra, Scapin, Mezzetin, Figaro, Basile, etc., all 2972 CLXXXIX | disgusts me less than the miasmas of egotism that exhale from 2973 Introd | revolution, turning to his Michaels and his leech-gatherers 2974 CCLII | you, we are preparing a mid-Lent fantasy; try to take part. 2975 CIII | of a hundred provincial middle-class women are boorish (pignouf 2976 CCXCVII | with us it is as warm as in midsummer. I hope that you still have 2977 CXLV | poor Bouilhet, I lost my midwife, it was he who saw into 2978 Introd | around him and the wakened militancy of his compatriots presses 2979 CCCV | rid of the taste of this milk-food, I read before going to 2980 CCLXXIV | should have made. My little milk-jug is broken. I should have 2981 Introd | the Madding Crowd and The Mill on the Floss, and of Wordsworth, 2982 Introd | 1838 to 1848—of which The Miller of Aginbault, Consuelo, 2983 Introd | with that of the Parisian milliner, her mother, and predestined 2984 CCCV | to me, like Pindar, and Milton, who are absolutely closed 2985 XXI | that I was vegetable or mineral. I am not always very sure 2986 CCL | There is only one remedy, a minimum dose, a half-centigram of 2987 CCLXXIX | explanation, and in the ministerial envelope was a letter from 2988 XXXVI | that wives of prefects and ministers could not have been complimented 2989 CCLXXVIII | the fall of the Broglie ministry pleasing to you? Very much 2990 Introd | repulsiveness; the same minuteness of observation—e.g., the 2991 Introd | resident in the magical, the miracle-working, powers of the human heart, 2992 CCLVI | too much when I look in my mirror. The older one grows, the 2993 CCXXXVIII | indulgent heart, a deliberate misanthrope,—and you will not make a 2994 CLV | Not in the crabbed and MISANTHROPIC sense. On the contrary, 2995 LI | Aurore consoles me for this mischance. She twitters like a bird 2996 LXXXVI | have quite a Gallic wit and mischief? They contain a mine of 2997 Introd | convinced that it is rather a mischief-maker than a reconstructive force 2998 CCXXXVI | is so much poverty. I am miserly because I know that I am 2999 CXCV | an abortion, a failure, a misfire, “whatever they say.” And 3000 CXXXV | Turkish woman, which they misrepresent, naturally; and Sarcey compares 3001 CCCXVII | I am perhaps the one who misses her most! I need her.~I 3002 CCLVI | since we parted, and I am missing you like the devil. I miss 3003 Introd | elusive felicity, for a larger mission than inspiring Musset’s 3004 CCCXIII | struck by the house of the missionaries (Montaret’s first night).