Letter

3005 CCCI      |       everything! This method, perhaps mistakenly conceived, is not easy to
3006 CCXLIX    |                so that I may know what mistakes he made and why he made
3007 Introd    |             for a month afterward. His mistress he seems to have estranged
3008 CCXIII    |            your home, move about, have mistresses or wives, whichever you
3009 XCI       |                are the actors, etc.? I mistrust your novel about the theatre.
3010 CCXC      |                The child is a singular mixture of precocity and childishness.
3011 Introd    |            from 1846 to 1854—that with Mme. Louise Colet, a woman of
3012 CLXXIII   |          children who are leaving.~The mobilization takes away those who were
3013 Introd    |          Roualt.’ So that the terrible mocker of the bourgeois has written
3014 CCLXVI    |                sense or the prevailing mode and custom as the criterion
3015 XXXIII    |              and for spiritual nature? MODERATION, relative chastity, abstinence
3016 CCXLIX    |             not to mention the Potager moderne of Gressent and the Agriculture
3017 CCLXXII   |               which would perhaps have modified the final issue. But I was
3018 CXCVIII   |               soul leans, Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, etc. have no
3019 XC        |           indeed, an ecstatic, mystic, molinistic religious enthusiast, I
3020 CCXCVII   |           there. Study the life of the mollusc! They are creatures better
3021 Introd    |           children through the fire to Moloch, or the description of the
3022 XVI       |                alone in your ravishing monastery, working and never going
3023 CCLXXXII  |              article about it. All the Monday-morning idiots have just been swooning
3024 XXX       |                 is announced as a real money-maker. There was a line this evening
3025 XX        |          shores, I have been a pirate, monk, mountebank and coachman.
3026 Introd    |               Muse. To illustrate his “monkish” consecration to his craft
3027 XLVIII    |             not Catholic, but I reject monstrosities. I say that the hideous
3028 CLXXII    |             and preparations for these monstrous conflicts of which we have
3029 XXXIV     |                the role of Nathalie in Mont-reveche. She will be recommended
3030 CCCI      |              Victor Hugo, or this from Montesquieu: “the vices of Alexander
3031 CIV       |        Pere-Lachaise, in the valley of Montmorency, through shops of religious
3032 L         |              offensive.~I am not doing Montreveche. I will tell you about that.
3033 CCX       |             who have subscribed to the monument for Bouilhet. I found that
3034 Introd    |            carcase.” His briefer black moods he might acknowledge had
3035 LX        |              He thought that they were Moors, left on the coast since
3036 LVI       |                element that weakens me morally while strengthening me physically;
3037 CCL       |           half-centigram of acetate of morphine taken every evening after
3038 CLXXXVII  |              loved get satisfaction by mortally hating it. What shall we
3039 Introd    |            vengeful satisfaction which mortals take in their own misery
3040 CLXXVIII  |                Paris were burned (like Moscow), than see the Prussians
3041 LXXXVI    |         without leaves, with its fresh moss, which has chic. Did you
3042 CCCXV     |             frequent news of your dear mother-in-law.~Embrace her for me and
3043 CLXX      |               which has no intelligent motive makes me want to die, so
3044 Introd    |              not magnify them into the mountainous overshadowing calamities
3045 XX        |              have been a pirate, monk, mountebank and coachman. Perhaps also
3046 CCXLVI    |           sufficient to me. I have not mounted as high as you in my ambition.
3047 CCXLVII   |              was very beautiful, and I mourned him.~I enter today upon
3048 Introd    |           strong-featured with leonine moustaches; and a barbaric temper,
3049 CXLIV     |            that wants to eat in little mouthfuls, whom large pieces choke.
3050 CCXVII    |            tends to get worse, and his mucous membrane has been so often
3051 CCLIV     |         absolutely necessary, in these muddled days.~On the day when a
3052 CCLXXXI   |              the Righi!!! Zounds! What mugs!~God be thanked, “of my
3053 CLXXXVI   |            nothing else than the Roman municipality. Oh! I assure you that my
3054 CXCVII    |                like the Anabaptists of Munster, like them you will destroy
3055 CCLX      |                in front of me has been murdering me with his instrument.
3056 CCLXXXIII |               while our Phoebus-Apollo murders us.~But I am always talking
3057 Introd    |               They could hear the loud murmur of the river flowing in
3058 LXXXIV    |             cradles you with its sweet MURMURING and which brings you freshness
3059 LX        |              too much the place of the muscular system. I am very well,
3060 CCLXX     |              Russias does not like the Muses. The censorship of the “
3061 C         |              am amused too much by the mustard and all that is not the
3062 IV        |             not to have read them. You mustn’t get excited about that,
3063 CCXXXVI   |              we shall serve each other mutually, like the bees and the ants.
3064 Introd    |               a criminal; his enormous muzzle hung to his breast, and
3065 CLXXXV    |               not have believed that a mystical formula is capable of making
3066 CCII      |               GODS, that is to say the mythological part of my Saint-Antoine,
3067 Introd    |                 devoured religions and mythologies, and saturated himself in
3068 CCLXXX    |           superb. Aurore is devoted to mythology (George Cox, Baudry translation).
3069 Introd    |       protruded and his hind legs were nailed together, but were slightly
3070 CXXI      |          ecclesiastical memoirs of the Nain de Tillemont. I hope to
3071 CCCXIII   |                 You make it seem real. Naissa scalping, and then wiping
3072 CCXII     |            being a coward. I protested naively, that is to say brutally.
3073 XLIII     |              Youth, such as the Bay of Naples. Do they make one sadder
3074 CCLVI     |               Stoppfel! another bitter narcotic! Oh! Heavens! Heavens! what
3075 CCCII     |               art, this special art of narration, is only worth while through
3076 CCXLV     |                de Clichy! That is very narrow of me, I agree to that;
3077 CCLXIV    |           first but shortly seems like nasty water. Between now and January
3078 CLXXVIII  |             blood of my ancesters, the Natchez or the Hurons, boils in
3079 XXXIV     |               like to have the role of Nathalie in Mont-reveche. She will
3080 CXCVII    |           great number of men of every nationality would not, could not, deliberate
3081 CXCVII    |             you will see whether other nations are any better than we are.
3082 LXIV      |               and where there are real natives at home, peasants, fisherfolk,
3083 XXXIII    |               say, but one should be a naturalist. That is a great question.~
3084 CLXXXIX   |          reasonable people” want to be naturalized Germans. I assure you it
3085 CCLXXIX   |             have just read la Creation naturelle by Haeckel, a pretty book,
3086 XVI       |                the archaeologist, have naught for the artist, they are
3087 LV        |                little less foolish. My nausea caused by the public cowardice
3088 LXXI      |               unfortunate spirit would navigate in strange waters. I have
3089 XCIX      |              dinner at a country place nearby, I lost four days (sic).
3090 XLII      |                order to procure. these necessaries is lost to study and to
3091 CCLXXIV   |           April, 1874~As it would have necessitated a STRUGGLE, and as Cruchard
3092 Introd    |           Madame Dudevant withdrew her neck from the conjugal yoke and
3093 CCXCIX    |             violent. The string of the necklace (that is to say, the main
3094 XVIII     |              torques [Footnote: Gallic necklaces.] have been found.~My children,
3095 CCI       |           Paris, with a chain on their necks, like ordinary convicts.
3096 XXVI      |             carries within himself his necropolis.~I am entirely UNDONE since
3097 Introd    |             tenderness:~“The one thing needful to this soul, so strong,
3098 CCLXIII   |                Aurore, whom I have not neglected, and who is world: well,
3099 LXIX      |                s best friends whom one neglects or ignores.~Come, a little
3100 CCLVII    |              working like ten thousand negroes, that is his excuse. But
3101 CCLXXXVI  |           examples to our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens. And
3102 LXXXI     |          Depaul, Tarnier, Gueniaux and Nelaton who told us yesterday that
3103 LXI       |             old Nohant, and Maurice at Nerac terminating by a compromise
3104 XL        |                and criticisms!—and the nerve of the gentlemen who compose
3105 XXVII     |              with you: no care, a good nesting-place a lovely country, affectionate
3106 CCLXI     |               found now? where are you nestled? As for me, I have just
3107 LX        |                mending the meshes in a net very cleverly; I showed
3108 CCXXXIII  |              from all the evil of this nether-world. One must swallow the bitter
3109 CLXXXV    |                CLXXXV. TO GEORGE SAND. Neuville near Dieppe, Friday, 31
3110 CLXV      |              and then,—even so! I have nevver been able to put Venus an
3111 XX        |                is all that is the very newest.~Oh! You think that because
3112 XX        |       beginning, the stupefaction of a newly commenced existence. It
3113 CCXIII    |            myself into torrents of far niente; the most infantile amusements,
3114 XX        |             have been a boatman on the Nile, a leno in Rome at the time
3115           | Ninety
3116 CCXXXVII  |           another whom I had said was “ninny”; such is my ancient French
3117 CCXLVII   |                is very much freer, and nobler. All his social nobility
3118 XXXII     |             and he mourns for him. Our nocturnal talks were very precious (
3119 Introd    |               Alexandrines or Chopin’s nocturnes. It is somewhat amusing,
3120 XV        |               a fairy play: la Nuit de Noel from the Theatre de Nohant,
3121 CXLV      |               nothing but the death of Noir! The general sentiment is
3122 Introd    |             time to time blew his nose noisily and Homais’ pen was scratching
3123 Introd    |                to life” and gave her a nom de guerre; the inscrutable
3124 XX        |                long as it has no exact nomenclature, so long as it is allowed
3125 CXCV      |                laughed, at realism and nominalism. For I defy anyone to show
3126 CLXXXVIII |          adherents a terrible farce by nominating “the murderers of Versailles.”
3127 V         |           which was a Brother extended nonchalantly on the edge of a foul ditch.
3128 XLVI      |               can not see this ancient nook. You owe me a week, or I
3129 LXXI      |                discover certain little nooks. What would be nice would
3130 LXX       |            month to go again to see ma Normandie, that is to say, my great,
3131 CCXLV     |    stubbornness of the Right. The good Normans, who are the most conservative
3132 XLV       |             travelling in Russia or in Norway. When the tide came in and
3133 XCI       |          bourgeois. I am rubbing their noses in their own dirt as much
3134 XXXVI     |               your distinguished works notably Madame Bovarie of which
3135 Introd    |               hands”; the same careful notation of effect on the several
3136 CCLXII    |         keeping on with my reading and note-taking.~You are not aware, doubtless,
3137 Introd    |            observable detail, fill his notebooks, amass his materials, master
3138 Introd    |      ordinarily originated, as we have noted, in an impulse of her lyrical
3139 CCLXXIII  |             and at the instant that he notices the blackguardism, he is
3140 V         |        Silvanit also that she can come notwithstanding for education obliges me
3141 CLXXI     |              luck!~Farming is going to nought, famine threatens, poverty
3142 CXXXIII   |                 at Croisset Nohant, 15 Nov., 1869~What has become of
3143 CLXXXVIII |                Sadowa, nor Italy after Novara, nor Russia after Sebastopol!
3144           | nowhere
3145 CCLXXXVIII|            seventy years with all that nuisance in my body, and I am still
3146 XV        |               perform a fairy play: la Nuit de Noel from the Theatre
3147 Introd    |           puffery. In politics we have nullified intelligence and renounced
3148 CCCVI     |             flowers and snow, one gets numb gathering violets and anemones.~
3149 CCCI      |                 such as “the shade was NUPTIAL, august and solemn!” from
3150 CCXLV     |            very boorish! There are two nuts, who have very plebeian
3151 IV        |              You must be a truly dirty oaf to have taken my name and
3152 CCLIII    |               have just sworn a solemn oath. You will have us at dinner
3153 CCLXXIX   |           extinction here. I came here obediently because they ordered me
3154 CXL       |                Don’t attempt a system, obey your inspiration.~What fine
3155 CCLXXVI   |               top of a Swiss mountain, obeying the advice of Doctor Hardy,
3156 CCXVIII   |           Religious principles are not objected to! The rest is left to
3157 CXIII     |              Chilly on account of some objections of detail, and I had told
3158 CIV       |             through shops of religious objects, etc.~In short, I have enough
3159 CXXIX     |              rather than submit to any obligation whatsoever, and then, with
3160 CCXIV     |           Dernieres Chansons? It would oblige me greatly. Now you have
3161 CV        |              are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also. It
3162 CCXXXIII  |                is a devoted fellow, as obliging as possible. He lives at
3163 CCCIX     |             thing is true, it is good. Obscene books likewise are immoral
3164 Introd    |         possible significance of every observable detail, fill his notebooks,
3165 LXXXV     |             the end of his book on the observance of the Sabbath, a love-story
3166 Introd    |      temperament dramatic, melancholy, observing, cynical, and satirical.
3167 CCI       |         petticoats has become with him obsession. We can not have progressed
3168 CXLIV     |                that it is very easy to obtain and that no rule opposes
3169 XXXII     |                necessary for me before obtaining a waterfall. Ah! I certainly
3170 Introd    |              pessimism is sufficiently obvious in the letters. This Norman
3171 Introd    |             fatigues and illnesses and occasional dolours and dumps as incidents
3172 LXXIII    |             should one take to express occasionally one’s opinion on the things
3173 XXXIV     |                the journals. That will occupy little space in my book
3174 CLXXVII   |            even nearer, since they are occupying Vexin, which they have completely
3175 CLXXXVII  |            instant since that horrible occurrence without falling into a bitter
3176 CLXXVI    |               as if cataracts, floods, oceans of sadness, were breaking
3177 CCXLV     |                Levy admire Ponsard and Octave Feuillet more than father
3178 LVI       |            these studies are veritable OCTOPUSES, which entwine about you
3179 LXXXIV    |            which you detest, but whose oddity does not displease me, keep
3180 XXVII     |            novel! It is exquisite; but oddly enough there is one entire
3181 CXXII     |           right although a little less odions!~The question is then out
3182 CCLXXXIV  |          Weinschenk proposed to me was odiously stupid and he did not keep
3183 Introd    |              an unscathed intellectual Odysseus, she declares herself greatly
3184 CCLXXVIII |            Perrin, who thinks the play off-color and unconventional. “Putting
3185 CCVII     |                me absolutely.~The good Offenbach has had another failure
3186 CXXIX     |              sensitiveness? That would offend me. Between simple friends,
3187 CCXXII    |                five or six days at the office of le Temps; you need only
3188 XCV       |           recommend again to your good offices, my friend Despruneaux,
3189 CLXV      |                old friends are married officials, thinking of their little
3190 XXXIII    |           ought to let THE OTHER do it oftener. That would go just as well
3191 XXVII     |                ideas which have become old-fashioned according to the senile
3192 CCCXIX    |               embrace you all from the oldest to the youngest.~Cruchard
3193 CCXLVII   |                to be henceforward more Olympian, a quality that I lack entirely.
3194 LXXXI     |               on two eggs made into an omelet or shirred, and a cup of
3195 CCCII     |                place oneself behind an opaque glass through which one
3196 Introd    |         Flaubert urges her to come out openly in renunciation of her faith
3197 LX        |               am, even if by a magical operation I could. I should not be
3198 CCC       |             with the opera or with the operetta? I read my paper conscientiously
3199 CXCVII    |                similar to too frequent opportunities which put our evil passions
3200 III       |      hindrances which the fair sex can oppose to it, you will not notice
3201 CXLIV     |                obtain and that no rule opposes it. But one must HAVE PULL;
3202 CCXXXIII  |                troubadourships are two opposites. What bores you, amuses
3203 CXCVII    |               abandons us and seeks to oppress us.~The people ferocious?
3204 CXXIII    |            live with us and not be too oppressive. I have thought a great
3205 CXCVII    |                the people—if it is the oppressor and executioner, I shall
3206 CCLXXXII  |               I decidedly don’t bat an optic, and the fate of le Sexe
3207 LVI       |               cowardly selfishness?~My optimism has had a rude jolt of late.
3208 LXXXIX    |              meet.~However, as I am an optimist just the same, I look at
3209 Introd    |                 sanguine, imaginative, optimistic and sympathetic; he from
3210 CCXXXIX   |              must not demand apples of orange trees. Artisans in luxury
3211 CCXIV     |        beautiful article, to a funeral oration on poetry. Poetry will not
3212 CCLXXIX   |                obediently because they ordered me to, for the purpose of
3213 LVIII     |                 One finds it among all orderly people.~It is the hatred
3214 XVI       |            poor Moi. Live! There is my oremus and my benediction and I
3215 Introd    |         position outside his work. The organ with which he collects his
3216 CXCVII    |               All these great material organizations in which right, justice,
3217 LXXIV     |                a little fete which she organizes.~Little Aurore promises
3218 CI        |               evening. Such are my mad orgies at the capital.~I found
3219 CXCVII    |                constitutable. It is an orgy of false reformers who have
3220 LVIII     |               returning to the ancient Orient. It seems to me that idols
3221 Introd    |               passion for splendor—for oriental scenery, for barbaric characters,
3222 Introd    |               theory, the novel should originate in a desire to present a
3223 Introd    |              improvisations ordinarily originated, as we have noted, in an
3224 CLXXXIX   |               fear. The vote about the Orleans is a concession made to
3225 CCLXXIX   |              between the valley of the Orne and the valley of the Auge.
3226 XX        |             for Queen Amelie, admiring Orphee aux Enfers, being occupied
3227 CCLXXIX   |               had been to see les Deux Orphelines, had taken a walk in the
3228 CCCII     |                much in common with the orthodox, but I am not of them; neither
3229 CLXXXV    |              have never been lower.~We oscillate between the society of Saint-Vincent
3230 CXCI      |          recommend him (and them) to d’Osmoy, deputy and president of
3231 CCLXXII   |                 two dozen oysters from Ostend, a bottle of champagne frappe,
3232 Introd    |          operations on the club-footed ostler’s leg, with the entire village
3233 XXI       |             childhood, and it is quite otherwhere that one is renewed; WHERE?
3234 XLVIII    |               entitled Giovanni Freppa ou les Maioliques.~Oh! what
3235 CLXXII    |               as the national poet and ousting Beranger! What immense buffoonery
3236 XLVI      |           filled with flowers gathered out-doors, five or six days ago; for
3237 Introd    |               had drilled men, with an out-flashing of the savage fighting spirit
3238 CCCIV     |             feelings. I don’t mind his out-of-date reasonings and dry phraseology!
3239 Introd    |                that he shunned a day’s outing or a chat with an old companion,
3240 CLXXII    |           perhaps, under another form, outlines and preparations for these
3241 CXCVII    |              the nation, not the least outlook towards the future. Ignorance,
3242 CXCVII    |               that has not merited the outrage. That heart is above self-love,
3243 IV        |             the papers that there were outrages against the Religion in
3244 Introd    |              all would perish.” At the outset of her career we compared
3245 LX        |               sea? I discovered in the outskirts of Tamaris, among the furthest
3246 XL        |               Bouilhet, who had a real ovation in his own country. His
3247 CCXLVI    |             too, if you don’t heat the oven of your ideas too hot. Why
3248 CCXLVI    |               even of forestalling, of overcoming in advance, the subject
3249 LX        |               carefully, your state of overexcitement is probably truer, or at
3250 LXXIV     |             art always needs a palette overflowing with soft or striking colors
3251 XLVII     |            groans, the river foams and overflows. It blows from the ocean,
3252 CCCIV     |      three-quarters are beautiful, one overlooks the part that is not.~I
3253 CXC       |          honesty and disinterestedness overnight. The vote is immediate education.
3254 Introd    |              them into the mountainous overshadowing calamities from which you
3255 CCXLVI    |                serenity, and I did not OVERSTATE the matter when I said to
3256 CLXXXV    |               troops at Versailles and overturn the government, the Prussians
3257 CXCVII    |                remarkable cowardice of overturning under the eyes of the enemy
3258 LXXIII    |          everlasting as mediocrity! He overwhelms me!~But the fine thing is
3259 CLX       |              read prodigiously. I have overworked, but now I am almost on
3260 CLXIV     |              sublime SWEETNESS. I have OWED him everything that is good
3261 CIV       |              francs a year income, one owes him some consideration.
3262 XLVI      |              that I advise; we are not owls, OBVIOUSLY! We have just
3263 XLIV      |           place with due honor, if one owned it. One is content to know
3264 CXXIX     |          compensation.” Well, I am the owner and the master of Aisse
3265 XCVII     |              at my novel like a lot of oxen. I hope on New Year’s Day
3266 CCLXXII   |                better. Menu: two dozen oysters from Ostend, a bottle of
3267 CCLXXIV   |                and all my love to you.~P.S. Could you give me a copy
3268 Introd    |             for our slack, sentimental pacificism; and urged us with all speed
3269 CLXXXVIII |              the workmen into the same pack, and would have them all
3270 XXXI      |               is the hour of death and paf! in the midst of the dance,
3271 CLXXXIII  |           world are we going to enter! Paganism, Christianity, idiotism,
3272 Introd    |             odd transitional figure of Pagello; Michel Euraed; Liszt; Chopin,
3273 XCI       |              Conception and the dinner pails of the working people.~I
3274 Introd    |               be imperative to work so painfully”—such is the burden of her
3275 XXXIII    |           always astonish me with your painstaking work; is it a coquetry?
3276 CCXX      |              to come home although the painters have not finished their
3277 Introd    |                buttons; in Jacques she paints the man who might fitly
3278 CCXLV     |                 perhaps, how to make a pair of shoes, they are becoming
3279 CLXXXVIII |       reverence of Saint-Victor for la Paiva. And this falseness (which
3280 C         |             you with our friend of the Palais Royal, [Footnote: Jerome
3281 Introd    |               he adored, seeing Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, and Greece;
3282 LXXIV     |                that art always needs a palette overflowing with soft or
3283 Introd    |              disappear in that viscous pallor that looks like a thin web,
3284 CCCXVI    |                  hearts like ours will palpitate through hers! People will
3285 CCXLV     |               before going back to the Pan Monceau; I promise.~The
3286 CXCVII    |             rights, is not, however, a panacea whose miracles need to be
3287 LXXIII    |              days of June) to insert a panegyric about him a propos of his
3288 CXCIV     |                and which is still in a panic! You cannot imagine the
3289 XXIV      |              them, as the music at the pantomime the other day. Example: “
3290 LXXIV     |                and to re-establish the papacy. Everything is in the future;
3291 CXCVII    |                Jacobins, it usurps the papal social authority and assumes
3292 CCCIV     |              is one of my well-beloved papas, and I consider le Philosophe
3293 CXCIV     |              you think of Mademoiselle Papevoine, the incendiary, who, in
3294 CCCXVIII  |             MAURICE SAND Saint-Gratien par Sannois, 20th August, 1877~
3295 CCLXVII   |               you a part for my friend Parade? And for Saint-Germain,
3296 CCXLV     |             fils, to make an agreeable paradox, has boasted of its advantages
3297 XLIX      |              seems to me now to have a paralysis of the brain. They are mad
3298 CCCXIV    |                Flaubert~4 rue Murillo, Parc Monceau~
3299 LIV       |                bringing me here like a parcel. I did nothing except sleep
3300 XLVIII    |                all other subjects. One pardons everything in those one
3301 CCXC      |                you have that beautiful Pare Monceau under your eyes
3302 LVIII     |           Victor Hugo’s preface to the Paris-Guide? Not very much, do you?
3303 LXXIII    |                Preface to his Histoire parlementaire. Many inanities which burden
3304 CI        |            Peter’s, the portico of the Parthenon, etc. I have contradictory
3305 XXXIV     |              and swaggeringly. But all participated in a great eclecticism and
3306 CLXXXVII  |                forms. But I think that partisans (sincere) ought to change
3307 CXCVII    |            blame or the approbation of partizan readers. But every being
3308 CCXXXV    |              talked of you with Madame Pasca who was our neighbor at
3309 XCIX      |           tells the life of Chancellor Pasquier. Thereupon, fear of the
3310 XLVIII    |               learned as I am. That of Passeri is charming.~Barbes has
3311 CLXXXIX   |                seen in the eyes of the passers-by.~And the Prussians exist
3312 CCCXVIII  |             Next winter you will be in Passy, I hope,—and from time to
3313 XCVIII    |              he was married before the pastor, and does not want the persecution
3314 CCLII     |                you were very good as a pastry cook at Pauline’s! If you
3315 CCXCVII   |              The important thing is to patch up the physical machine.
3316 Introd    |        disclose to reflection, no less patently than the works of George
3317 Introd    |                admits with a truth and pathos, deeply appealing to the
3318 Introd    |            never could have endured so patiently, so sweetly, Flaubert’s
3319 LX        |               French, nor Italian, nor patois. He told me their name,
3320 CXCVII    |        disappointed ambition, mistaken patriotism, fanaticism without an ideal,
3321 CCLXXVII  |              happy at hearing the Diva Paulita, we had her, with Iphigenie,
3322 CXXII     |               all the Saint Vincent de Pauls in the world! And politics
3323 XXXI      |             and his family live in the pavilion in the garden and we are
3324 CCXI      |               of nothing.~Can one live peaceably, you say, when the human
3325 CXCVII    |          happiness possible? Can we go peacefully to sleep when we feel the
3326 CV        |              tree is in bud. Here, the peaches and the apricots are in
3327 CCLVII    |                d’ecole,” I admire your pedagogic spirit, dear master, there
3328 CCXI      |                all the others and that pedagogy teaches us to look for knots
3329 CCXVIII   |          nothing more. I am not such a pedant as to prefer phrases to
3330 CXLI      |            Taillandier is as asininely pedantic as the Revue. Aren’t they
3331 CLXXXIII  |            habits, etc. Last degree of pedantry!~I have now at Croisset
3332 LX        |                 Because it comes to my pen-point; for in considering it carefully,
3333 CCI       |                always the story of the penitent thief blessed because he
3334 CCLXXXI   |                of the populace and the penny-a-liners. The manager of the Cluny
3335 LXXXV     |               idea of the style of les Penseurs. It should be placed on
3336 XVI       |                only stones and has not perceived even a pen for twelve days.~
3337 CCCV      |               well is at the same time perceiving well, thinking well and
3338 Introd    |                for us with one radiant perception which must be included in
3339 CCXLVIII  |               companion. Have you read Peres et Enfants? How good it
3340 CLXXX     |            events. To speak of all the peril and trouble there is in
3341 CCCIX     |           publishing Saint-Julien in a periodical, but I have given the plan
3342 CCCII     |               is otherwise, if the MOI perishes entirely, let us have the
3343 LI        |              pink stars among the blue periwinkle. It is warm and damp. One
3344 CCCI      |              at least, it is a sort of permanent sacrifice that I am making
3345 CCXXXIX   |            vessel, the dregs mount and permeate all. The least conversation
3346 XCVII     |                grace has so thoroughly permeated us that the sense of justice
3347 CCXLV     |                that question in itself permits of no solution. For I write (
3348 CCI       |               to take Aisse! I am very perplexed, and it is going to be necessary
3349 XLV       |                dreamed a book on Saint Perrine. Champfleury treated that
3350 XXI       |                the whole secret of our persevering labors and of our love of
3351 CXCI      |               lost in the religions of Persia. I am trying to get a clear
3352 CXVIII    |         volumes, won’t you?~However, I persisted and he said to me: If the
3353 LIV       |              you so very seriously and persistently if need be And is that hateful
3354 CLXVIII   |         question is to know if the moi persists. The affirmative seems to
3355 XLVI      |              showing him the artist, a personage become so rare, and cursing
3356 XCVIII    |               listens well. One gets a perspective and judges one’s work better.
3357 CCXVIII   |               The rest is left to your perspicacity, dear master! That is all.~
3358 LXXXVII   |                Versailles says), and I perspired greatly. I went twice to
3359 XLV       |            reread now the Fair Maid of Perth. It is a good story, whatever
3360 CCLXXXIV  |                is perhaps owing to the perversity of my mind, which likes
3361 Introd    |               personal and desperately pessimistic conception of life by which
3362 CXCVII    |               will be the focus of the pestilence of Europe. A nation that
3363 CLXXXII   |                go to Paris. It will be pestilential for some time to come.~Yours.~
3364 CXLI      |         prudish in that set? I am in a pet with Girardin. I know very
3365 CXCV      |           every one is able to read le Petit Journal and le Figaro, they
3366 CCI       |              prevent the tucking up of petticoats has become with him obsession.
3367 LXVII     |              your information. I asked Peyrat last evening, I am writing
3368 CXCVII    |              duty? No, your power is a phantom of death. A great number
3369 CLXXVI    |               can you still believe in phantoms? Whatever happens, the people
3370 XX        |          memories which go back to the Pharaohs. I see myself very clearly
3371 CLVII     |                a faithless one).~Every pharmacist in Seine-Inferieure recognizing
3372 CCXIII    |             you like, and during these phases, must change the end that
3373 CCLXXX    |              will, genius, are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano,
3374 XIX       |                 de Talleyrand to Louis Philippe: “It is the greatest honor
3375 XXXV      |               the artist verged on the Philistine. Perhaps you have not that
3376 CCXCIV    |            bear this serious annoyance philosophically. You have no vices to satisfy,
3377 CCLVI     |               Tourgueneff and Cruchard philosophized about that from Nohant to
3378 CCLXXXIII |            beautiful warm sun and that Phoebus invigorates us, while our
3379 CCLXXXIII |              invigorates us, while our Phoebus-Apollo murders us.~But I am always
3380 CCLXXXIX  |               sun will become the dear Phoebus-Appolo with the shining hair, and
3381 Introd    |        Carthaginian battle-scene or by photographing the details of a modern
3382 CCCIV     |         out-of-date reasonings and dry phraseology! The right thought is always
3383 XXXVI     |               tell you that I have the phthisic still agreeably and always
3384 LVI       |         morally while strengthening me physically; and I fall into melancholies
3385 XVI       |             Carnac and Erdeven have no physiognomy. In short, Brittany shall
3386 CCCI      |               experimentally denied by physiology and history. I do not see
3387 Introd    |              ancestry he inherited the physique of a giant, tainted with
3388 LVIII     |              fine epoch!~My novel goes piano. The further I get on the
3389 XVII      |                desire of gaining a few piasters and the shame of showing
3390 XVIII     |        comfortable everywhere. I shall pick a quarrel with your mother
3391 CCXXXII   |               have just read Dickens’s Pickwick. Do you know that? There
3392 LXXXVII   |               that tropical heat (trop picole, as the governor of the
3393 Introd    |             seems never really to have pierced his thick casing of masculine
3394 CCLXXXV   |            clouds which the sun seldom pierces, and we cry ceaselessly
3395 CCVII     |           Shall one ever get to hating piffle? That would be a fine step
3396 CXXII     |           enter into each one of these pigeon holes. All the flags have
3397 Introd    |               had been only a literary pigment, a resource of the studio,
3398 CLXXVII   |                Italy, and boorishness (pignouflism) begins!~What a cataclysm!
3399 CCLXV     |              fit to be thrown out on a pile of rubbish.~Here he is up
3400 XXXI      |               spring which ceaselessly piles up diamonds in the moonlight.
3401 LXXIII    |        diplomatic idiot inspires me in piling up his stupidity on the
3402 CCCV      |          understand. He is to me, like Pindar, and Milton, who are absolutely
3403 CCXVI     |              aroused in Madame Colet a pindaric fury. I have received an
3404 LI        |         growing thousands of white and pink stars among the blue periwinkle.
3405 CCXXXVI   |              Revolution written by the pious, the history of France,
3406 CCCXIII   |               stopping to fill my good pipe from time to time and then
3407 CCI       |           council at Versailles treats Pipe-en-Bois more harshly than M. Courbet,
3408 CLXXXVIII |         dressing case, a bandbox, some pipes; but on the whole they did
3409 Introd    |              he cries in half-sportive pique, “that because I pass my
3410 XX        |           Syrian shores, I have been a pirate, monk, mountebank and coachman.
3411 CCLV      |                my friend General Ferri Pisani, whom you know, who HAS
3412 Introd    |                down to rot in a common pit. If I read Flaubert’s meaning
3413 CXLIV     |              for collector and goes to Pithiviers—unless by pull, we could
3414 CCLXXII   |              pity me, for I don’t feel pitiable.~P. S.—A nice bit from my
3415 CCXXXVI   |             sorry for them. Loving and pitying are not to be separated.
3416 Introd    |               to her peasant doggedly, placidly, sticking at his plow; turns
3417 CCXXXIII  |          acquaintance. Idleness is the plague of this age, and life is
3418 XVI       |           ancient world and sowing the plagues of the future.~You say US
3419 CLXXVI    |            when we are overcome by the plainest positivism, how can you
3420 CCLXXXII  |              weeks. Zola’s Conquete de Plassans, seventeen hundred in six
3421 CXIII     |            shoemaker who has a LEATHER plaster on his right eye, and who
3422 XVII      |            think that I am sickeningly platitudinous, and I am sometimes exceedingly
3423 XXXIII    |                and con. It is Monsieur Plato, I think, who asked for
3424 Introd    |             she entered into relations Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously
3425 CCCVIII   |               principle? (I speak as a Platonist.) Thus, why is a relation
3426 CXLIV     |                 that of my drudge of a Plauchmar—and still another departure,
3427 XL        |                 and to choose subjects pleasant to the author?~I expressed
3428 CCII      |              of the brutishness of the plebe, they are saying an unjust,
3429 CCXLV     |                two nuts, who have very plebeian souls.~Adieu, dear good
3430 CCXXXIX   |              in a society dominated by plebeians. How I regret him! He and
3431 CXCIX     |         Parisians regrets Badinguet. A plebiscite would declare for him, I
3432 CCI       |         enlightened men!!! I have seen Plessy, charming and always beautiful.
3433 CLXXIII   |             The peasant is working and ploughing his fields; digging hard
3434 XVIII     |           cleared away the ground near Plouharnel?~Those people used to write,
3435 Introd    |              placidly, sticking at his plow; turns to her peasant with
3436 CCXXXI    |            lets me sleep now that I am plunging daily in a furious little
3437 XLII      |              begin to’ call YOU in the plural. It is charming, the planet,
3438 CLXXX     |              the rest of us. To die of pneumonia or of a bullet is dying
3439 CCXLIX    |                 and I ruin innumerable pocket-handkerchiefs! When will it be over?~I
3440 CCLXIII   |                Cruchard is a beautiful poem, so much in keeping, that
3441 CCLXXII   |                 They made jokes of the poetical things. A poet says: “I
3442 CCLXX     |                just finished the Gaule poetique of Marchangy (the enemy
3443 Introd    |                which rehabilitates and poetises the courtesan,’ against
3444 Introd    |            green and salad days is the poetising of that liberative eighteenth
3445 CCXLIII   |               I saw Francia plunge the poignard into his heart, I frowned
3446 CIV       |                  He lacked manners and poise. What disgusted me a little,
3447 CXCVII    |              uses and abuses, both the poison and the antidote. It is
3448 Introd    |             hours, after the arsenical poisoning:~“Emma’s head was turned
3449 CCXLIX    |               become like the canon of Poitiers, of whom Montaigne speaks,
3450 CCLXXXI   |                to think that that good Pole is better than I am in French
3451 CIV       |                would bless the liberty poles out of policy and believing
3452 CXCVII    |             between the jailer and the police.~All France has heard the
3453 CIV       |               the liberty poles out of policy and believing that measure
3454 XIV       |                saw that all that great politeness came from the heart. Remember
3455 CXXIX     |         friends, one needs manners and politenesses; but between you and me,
3456 LXXII     |               is a love.~We have RAVED politically; now we try not to think
3457 CLXXXIV   |            that bragging, coupled with poltroonery, will so disgust us and
3458 CCCVI     |               sparkle brightly in this polychrome. Moreover, the decadences
3459 Introd    |               barbaric characters, the pomp of savage war and more savage
3460 CCXLV     |             true. Why does Levy admire Ponsard and Octave Feuillet more
3461 CCXVI     |               great man,” not at all a pontiff! This discovery greatly
3462 CLXXXVII  |                this winter, and if the poppies are pretty.~I often take
3463 Introd    |              faith in humanity and her popular progressivistic doctrines.
3464 Introd    |           Wells, she eagerly sought to popularize by the novels of her middle
3465 LXXXVIII  |             now being rehearsed at the Porte Saint-Martin (so you have
3466 CCXLII    |             You cannot keep it in your portfolio. You don’t like Levy, but
3467 CI        |        colonnade of Saint Peter’s, the portico of the Parthenon, etc. I
3468 CCLXIX    |               profit her. If a certain portion of intelligence and goodness
3469 XLIX      |              clever, cultivated, not a poseur, in short charming, and “
3470 CXCVII    |             Those are what constitutes positively the people of Paris; it
3471 Introd    |         admitted also that George Sand possessed in a high degree the Pauline
3472 CXXXIV    |             absorb everything.~Keep me posted. If they did not do justice
3473 CCLXXIX   |              show more respect for his posthumous work.~Without believing
3474 CCLVI     |             two horses. Hurrah for the postillions of La Chatre! But the rest
3475 CXIII     |               kept by Chilly, we shall postpone till next week after Friday.~
3476 XXXV      |      bread-and-butter and art a little pot-boiler, all right; but if their
3477 CCXLIX    |           medicine, not to mention the Potager moderne of Gressent and
3478 CCLXXXVII |                t know what. Bromide of potassium has calmed me and given
3479 CCXXXVI   |           answer you by producing only potatoes. Since the beginning of
3480 XXXVI     |             your affectionate~Victoire Potelet~called Marengo Lirondelle
3481 CCXCI     |             like a burden of a million pounds. My niece will come to spend
3482 CLXVIII   |                living being to whom to pour out my soul about those
3483 CCXCV     |           execution, the feeling of my powerlessness adds to my chagrin.~Don’
3484 CLIX      |                seeks practice, he only practices for his friends, and he
3485 XX        |             different ages of history, practising different professions and
3486 CCCV      |        humanitarian point of view very praiseworthy, I agree. But what difference
3487 CCLXXX    |              IFS and the BUTS of human prattle. We are of nature, in nature,
3488 CCLXXIV   |          formulated within myself this prayer: “Oh! how I wish I could
3489 CCLXIX    |                satisfaction and we are praying for success, and we are
3490 XCVII     |            would be found again in the preachers of the League.~What is the
3491 CCIX      |          nothing else.~Yesterday I was preaching the calmness of disdain
3492 CLXXVII   |             contrary to all historical precedents. Where did you ever see
3493 CXXX      |               Then La Tour Saint-Ybars precedes us [Footnote: This refers
3494 CCCI      |               short the historical and precise side of things. I am seeking
3495 CCXC      |               is a singular mixture of precocity and childishness. She is
3496 Introd    |         inherited nothing great of his predecessor but his name. This change
3497 Introd    |              milliner, her mother, and predestined her for a leveller by preparing
3498 CCLXXI    |            without knowing the play, I predict a success on the first day.
3499 CLXXXVIII |            consequence of romanticism, predominance of passion over form, and
3500 CXCV      |             justice. Observe how mercy predominates now. Sentiment is everything,
3501 PrefNote  |                                        PREFATORY NOTE~This translation of
3502 Introd    |          estranged by an ill-concealed preference to her of his exacting Muse.
3503 CCLI      |                doing nothing about it, preferring to do without the money
3504 CCLXXVI   |            foolishness saddens me. One prefers inspiring good feelings