Letter

3505 CCLVIII   |             and my heart as jumpy as a pregnant woman; it is unfair, that
3506 CCXXXVI   |            goodness and not at all for prejudiced sentimentality. I spit with
3507 CCXIII    |                great loss to art, that premature death. In ten years there
3508 XCVI      |               aim, ought not to be the preoccupation. It is, moreover, not the
3509 CCLXIV    |              not have so many literary preoccupations. The archeology is superfluous.
3510 CLXIX     |            looking a little sad.”~What preoccupies me most about poor Jules’ (
3511 CCXCVII   |                there is nothing now in preparation. I do not know at what time
3512 Introd    |             professional advocates of “preparedness,” our cheerful chemists,
3513 CXCVII    |                is weeping over you and prepares your epitaph. This pale
3514 CCLXXXVIII|                come when someone would prescribe walking to you. All your
3515 CXCI      |                 to d’Osmoy, deputy and president of the dramatic commission,
3516 CCLXXII   |                is the truth.~La Petite Presse of this morning is polite.
3517 XXVII     |          something to do over. Nothing pressing. Bouilhet’s play goes admirably
3518 CCLXXX    |           glaciers are still intact, I presume.~But I cannot write further,
3519 CCXLI     |              LOVED more than anyone, a presumptuous phrase which means “quite
3520 CLXXVI    |            truth has taken us! Love of pretence and of flap-doodle. We are
3521 XLV       |         imagining all sorts of things, pretending that I was travelling in
3522 CCLXXXIV  |               I am going to say a very pretentious thing to you. No one understands
3523 CV        |              am inventing all sorts of pretexts not to write mine. I let
3524 LXVII     |                saw Etretat, Yport, the prettiest of all the villages, Fecamp,
3525 CCLXVI    |          establish common sense or the prevailing mode and custom as the criterion
3526 CXCV      |        constituted, one single element prevails to the detriment of all
3527 Introd    |              you. Sick, irritated, the prey a thousand times a day of
3528 CXCVII    |             always been ferocious, the priest always hypocritical, the
3529 Introd    |              physical surrender of the priestess to her country’s enemy,
3530 Introd    |               She conceived of life as primarily an opportunity for unlimited
3531 CXCIX     |              the 4th of September; (3) primary education gave us the Commune.
3532 CCVII     |           Rouen, which did not dare to print it; but it will appear on
3533 CCXLIII   |               objection applies to the prior, whom I think otherwise
3534 CCCXIII   |            when they escape from their prison, is not perfectly clear?
3535 CXCVII    |              you say, live for certain privileged persons and withdraw from
3536 Introd    |                have formed, without my privity, the theory I am about to
3537 CCCIX     |              at the first night of the Prix Martin, a piece of buffoonery
3538 XX        |              or chiques): namely being pro-Catholicism (without believing a word
3539 XX        |          believing a word of it) being pro-Slavery, being pro-the House of
3540 XX        |               being pro-Slavery, being pro-the House of Austria, wearing
3541 XLVIII    |              are to be in Paris. It is probable that I shall have to go
3542 CXCV      |              And the reason is that it proceeded from the Middle Ages and
3543 CLXXXV    |             socialists who imitate the proceedings of Badinguet and of William:
3544 CCCII     |                emotion, and an emotion proceeds only from a conviction.
3545 CCCXVIII  |         terrible book that I am in the process of concocting. I shall have
3546 CCXLVII   |                once more: I headed the procession at the burial of father
3547 CCLXII    |               At Rouen they are having processions, but the effect is completely
3548 CCLX      |               more and they would have proclaimed him Emperor. His sojourn
3549 CXCVII    |             all that is not itself. It proclaims POSITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
3550 XLII      |              the time lost in order to procure. these necessaries is lost
3551 XCIV      |                If one did not know the prodigies of harmony and of vim which
3552 CVII      |                the gods, the sap which produces actions later on, etc. A
3553 Introd    |          literary activity. Enormously productive, with a hundred books to
3554 CCCIV     |               scorn Sedaine, you great profane soul! That is where the
3555 XLIV      |            they are in some temple not profaned by cold analysis, a little
3556 CXCVII    |                is it possible that you profess destruction and hatred as
3557 CCC       |            time is left to me to write PROFESSIONALLY, seeing that I cannot keep
3558 XX        |          history, practising different professions and in many sorts of fortune.
3559 CCLXXVI   |               hand I am admired by the professors of the Faculty of Theology
3560 CCCII     |               mystery of the moral and profitable meaning of one’s book. People
3561 CCXCIX    |                little better, and I am profiting by the occasion to write
3562 CV        |            that the present time still profits by (there lies the evil);
3563 CCXLI     |               Thiers too advanced!!! O profoundness! problem, revery!~
3564 XXI       |              neither sex nor strength, progresses towards childhood, and it
3565 CCCIX     |         sustained and at the same time progressive. In short, what strikes
3566 CVI       |          fatalist Pascal!~“Nature acts progressively, itus et reditus. It goes
3567 CLXXXIII  |                did not see myself as a progressivist and a humanitarian. That
3568 Introd    |               humanity and her popular progressivistic doctrines. I must quote
3569 CCLXX     |            French edition even will be prohibited. That is quite a serious
3570 XXI       |              it? A sun which would not project rays and would give life
3571 Introd    |       enthusiasms and with her Utopian projects for social reformation,
3572 CXCVII    |              here intelligent and wise proletarians, there bourgeois who are
3573 CLXIII    |                not dare to wish you to prolong your slavery there, for
3574 LXXVI     |                are prisoners, and I am prolonging my holidays in a ridiculous
3575 LXXI      |               happen? For I am usually prompt.~My work does not go very
3576 CXXV      |               in the sickening work of proof-reading. As for me I hurry over
3577 Introd    |               her lifelong passion for propaganda and reformation, labors
3578 CXCVI     |               basket. I find there the prophecies that the conscience of each
3579 LXXIII    |              propos of his book: De la propriete, and I hope that he will
3580 CCCVIII   |               left as you go up to the Propylaea). Well! I wonder if a book
3581 CXCVII    |        exactions, sees necessarily the pros and cons, and the sincere
3582 CLI       |               me in the manager’s box, proscenium, ground floor. I am heavy-hearted
3583 Introd    |          appearance, Madame Bovary was prosecuted, though unsuccessfully,
3584 LXXIII    |               consists of temperament. Prostitutes,— like France,—always have
3585 CCLXXX    |                often ill, now, illness PROSTRATES me more. That is nothing,
3586 CCXXVI    |                have the grippe and the prostration that follows it. I cannot
3587 CIV       |              to me, that he made these protestations of isidorian love, which
3588 CXCVII    |               single member capable of protesting against ignoble attacks,
3589 CLXVIII   |              day after. But to begin a protracted effort I need a certain
3590 Introd    |               skin, his ribs severally protruded and his hind legs were nailed
3591 XCIII     |             Argentan. I am not any the prouder for that; besides the thing
3592 CIII      |                Ninety out of a hundred provincial middle-class women are boorish (
3593 Introd    |                same Period and similar provocation: “However much you fatten
3594 CCI       |                me very busy, or rather provokes me. I have not seen Chilly,
3595 CXLI      |              as the Revue. Aren’t they prudish in that set? I am in a pet
3596 CXXXIV    |               and to get you, if I can pry you loose from Paris. My
3597 CCLXXXVII |             are going on inside me. My psychic depression must relate to
3598 CXXXV     |               one ought to prevent the publication of books like that (textual),
3599 CC        |               if I had to write to you PUBLICLY the character would be what
3600 Introd    |        Beautiful in favor of universal puffery. In politics we have nullified
3601 CXXXVI    |             lacking.~Saint-Victor, who puffs the books of Arsene Houssaye,
3602 LXXIII    |               can give the idea of the puking with which this old diplomatic
3603 CXCVII    |             who allow themselves to be pulled in are the idiots.~There
3604 XLVI      |           rapid to be within reason, a pulse too slow, too feeble, an
3605 CCLVII    |          having read it in le Temps (a pun). [Footnote: “Dans de temps”
3606 CCLVII    |            your opinion as regards the punctuation. That is to say that I would
3607 XX        |                Rome at the time of the Punic wars, then a Greek rhetorician
3608 XCI       |                please in the matter of punishments.~
3609 CCXLV     |           between the producer and the purchaser, and even then, that question
3610 CCCII     |              whiteness is like general purification, and the amusements of the
3611 LXXXVI    |             Blanc dreamed of seeing it purified and restored to his ideal.
3612 Introd    |             commonly attributed to the Puritan. His friend Maxime Du Camp,
3613 CCCI      |               generalities, and I have purposely turned aside from the accidental
3614 Introd    |               Sand began to write, her purposes were but vaguely defined.
3615 CCCI      |            beauty, which my companions pursue but languidly. I see them
3616 CCLXI     |               to read. The LOCAL POETS pursued me with books and bouquets.
3617 CCXCI     |               plans for the future and pursuing my end (one alone, literature)
3618 CLXXX     |               be ORLEANISM. But we are pushed into the unforeseen to such
3619 CCXXXIX   |             tell you he died from the “putrescence of modern times.” That is
3620 LXXXIX    |           bungle. One needs to see the putting-on of a play in order to understand
3621 Introd    |            habits of work in excessive quantities, and the solitude of his
3622 CCXVII    |                 neglect him? Have they quarreled about politics?~
3623 CCLXXV    |                 to do one about Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize. I said that I was ill.
3624 CCXLIII   |            submit to you the following queries: Emilien seems to me very
3625 Introd    |              and Gustave Flaubert, the querulous friend of her last decade.~
3626 CX        |             vexed. If you have need of quibus, I have at the moment a
3627 CCCXVII   |            myself.~In order to get the quicker at work, I shall stay here
3628 LV        |                the rumours of war have quieted down, people seem to me
3629 XLIII     |           Mediterranean. Its azure sky quiets and invigorates. There are
3630 CCXXXIII  |          written documents. We are Don Quixotes, my old troubadour; we must
3631 CCCXIX    |               seems to me more decent (quod decet). You do not speak
3632 CCLXXII   |           title. They expected another Rabagas! The conservatives have
3633 CCLXXVIII |              of Theleme [Footnote: Cf. Rabelais’ Gargantua.] is a fine dream,
3634 Introd    |            senses the truth of the old Rabelaisian utterance, that “science
3635 Introd    |               due to the school of Ann Radcliffe. But the quality in Shelley
3636 CCCI      |                dogma of equality which radicalism praises is experimentally
3637 CLXXVII   |      surrounding Seine-Inferieure in a radius of from fourteen to twenty
3638 CXXXI     |              survivors of the Medusa’s raft are disappearing!~A thousand
3639 CCLXVIII  |            role of a little legitimist ragamuffin, so that the play, conceived
3640 XC        |             exceeded my limits. I have raged, I have said the hardest
3641 LXXX      |             there are carriages at the railway station and that one goes
3642 CLXXIII   |               one or the other?~It has rained here at last, a horrible
3643 CCLXXXIII |               and above all walk. Your rainy climate makes you keep to
3644 CXCVII    |                ever I feel the need of raising what is low, and of lifting
3645 Introd    |               years. She can no longer rally her spiritual forces with
3646 CLXXXVIII |               science to be within the range of the people.~But this
3647 CCCII     |               choice words. But brute, ransack your own mattress and eat
3648 Introd    |           Temptation of St. Anthony he ransacked ancient literature, devoured
3649 CXC       |         education. They have appointed Raoul Rigault and company. They
3650 XLVI      |              An emaciation that is too rapid to be within reason, a pulse
3651 XCVII     |               of making life run along rapidly.~
3652 CCCVIII   |       exactness of its assembling, the rarity of its elements, the polish
3653 CCLXV     |               liver trouble, jaundice, rash, fever, in short he was
3654 CXII      |               am running around like a rat, but every day at 6 o’clock
3655 CI        |                very vague), and at the rate I am going, if I write these
3656 CXLIX     |             troubadour, we are two old rattle traps. As for me, I have
3657 CLXXVI    |               sight of cannon, and (2) ravage the surrounding country.~
3658 LXXII     |              Aurore is a love.~We have RAVED politically; now we try
3659 CCI       |               Lacordaire, or rather of Ravignan! To prevent the tucking
3660 CCCVIII   |              of Gautier. Phrases which ravish me seem hollow to them.
3661 LIV       |              him; you have seduced and ravished him, and he is not demonstrative.~
3662 LXXIV     |      personality and a type: she sings ravishingly, she gets angry, she gets
3663 CLXI      |            moment, then one sees not a ray.~
3664 CCXXX     |        influence to support my friend, Raymond Deslandes, as if he were~
3665 XVI       |         Catholic vandalism has passed, razing monuments of the ancient
3666 LXXXVIII  |                Thuillier will make her re-appearance in your play. (But I thought
3667 XCVII     |           matter what they say. I have re-discovered in Marat entire fragments
3668 XXXIX     |                has passed the night in re-doing a second act which did not
3669 CXLI      |             manuscript. The FAIRY PLAY re-done, Saint-Antoine, whatever
3670 CLXXXV    |               last, I resign myself to re-enter Croisset! It is hard! But
3671 LXXIV     |               regain his throne and to re-establish the papacy. Everything is
3672 CCLVII    |              from it! I am hacking and re-hacking “le Sexe faible.” I wrote
3673 CXCVII    |                in blood that races are re-invigorated and rejuvenated. Vital exhalations
3674 XXXVII    |               days I have polished and re-polished a paragraph without accomplishing
3675 CCLXXII   |             cut out, I would have made re-touches or perhaps changes which
3676 CCIV      |                 the preface of which I re-wrote. In short I am worn out!
3677 CCCXVIII  |             party of law and order, it reaches a dizzy height!~Has there
3678 XXIV      |            Paris, 10 November, 1866~On reaching Paris I learn sad news.
3679 XXXIX     |         holding her in my arms that it reacts on me, and when the infant
3680 Introd    |              in the pretensions of the realists, namely, their aspiration
3681 XXVIII    |               settle there and I shall realize the plan formed long since
3682 CCXLVI    |                then, if you are in the realm of the ideal about this,
3683 CCXLIII   |                the robbers either. The reappearance of Emilien with his arm
3684 CXXI      |             Polycarp!~Fangeat, who has reappeared recently, is the citizen
3685 CCCIV     |             don’t mind his out-of-date reasonings and dry phraseology! The
3686 CCXLV     |               censorship is! Let us be reassured, it will always exist, for
3687 CCLX      |                 reserve force” that is reassuring to your friends. May you
3688 LVI       |            well or very ill, one would reattach oneself to a general interest,
3689 XCIII     |               Count de Sauvieres, like Rebec! and even like Henri, although
3690 CXXXIV    |            which did not seem to me to rebel against your success; but
3691 LVI       |             the MICROS; I learn on the rebound. When I shall have fixed
3692 CCXCIV    |             must not be shaken by this rebuff. Think of healing those
3693 Introd    |             the arts of popularity, he rebuffed with deliberate insult.
3694 Introd    |         yearnings, to find her writing rebukingly to Sainte-Beuve, as early
3695 LIX       |              scholar; so well that the recalcitrants laid down their arms. I
3696 XLVIII    |                 Please acknowledge the receipt of the three pamphlets;
3697 XCVI      |               between good and average receipts. The cabal against the new
3698 CCXLVII   |           writer, because he no longer receives a pension from the great,
3699 CCXXXVI   |               His stomach has become a receptacle where playthings are put.~
3700 XLV       |          subject! You should give me a recipe for going faster: and you
3701 XXXIII    |              con, which constitute it, reciprocally destroying each other. What
3702 LXXV      |           unkind to sadden me with the recital of the amusements at Nohant,
3703 CCLXXXIV  |                Day before yesterday he recited by heart to me from Boileau
3704 Introd    |               lived heartily and a bit recklessly from day to day, spending
3705 CCXXXVIII |              you plunge into work, and reckon ass lost the time you might
3706 CCI       |              and even race ought to be reckoned, in short every resource.
3707 CCLXXXI   |            that play in October. He is reckoning on a great money success.
3708 CV        |             insists on it. The kind of recognition, that is to say, submission
3709 CCCXIII   |             returned to me yet. But my recollection of it is of a thing very
3710 LVI       |       disappears, you say? But only to recommence! What kind of a society
3711 XXI       |        understood, one is resigned and recommences. When one is understood,
3712 CCCXII    |             myself to Borie under your recommendation, and it is to you that I
3713 CCXXXVI   |               make sacrifices, only to reconsider when the sacrifice is harmful
3714 XXI       |             and that has served me for reconstructing one or two pictures which
3715 Introd    |            that point in his vision of reconstruction: a “legitimate aristocracy”
3716 Introd    |                a mischief-maker than a reconstructive force in a decrepit society,
3717 CXXI      |              it, God be thanked! It is recopied. Other hands have gone over
3718 Introd    |              as of a medical examiner, recording the results of an autopsy.
3719 XXXIX     |       unexpected events or emotions to recount. My poor Manceau called
3720 XXI       |             ability, there yet remains recourse to the future, which supports
3721 Introd    |              the 1840 bourgeois. Their recriminations against romanticism ‘which
3722 Introd    |             was to give the doctrine a recrudescence of interest by resolutely
3723 CCXXII    |              fear of contagion, and to recuperate, for she has not been well
3724 Introd    |           resident in the creative and recuperative energies of nature, resident
3725 Introd    |             hedged in by two chains of reddish hillocks, when a nauseous
3726 CVI       |              an admirable definition I rediscover with surprise in the fatalist
3727 CVI       |            acts progressively, itus et reditus. It goes on and returns,
3728 L         |       incommode you.~Cadio is entirely redone and rewritten up to the
3729 XLV       |               the north wind is to the reed.~A word from you, which
3730 Introd    |              her own busy felicity she reenforces her advice! I shall produce
3731 CLXXII    |              schemes of Providence for reestablishing European equilibrium? That
3732 CXCI      |          prevented) the least ill. The reestablishment of credit seems to me colossally
3733 CXXX      |              with the Revue and I must refill my purse.—Are directors
3734 CCC       |            about which I have so often reflected since, asking myself why
3735 XXI       |             give life to no one.~After reflecting on it, isn’t that your opinion?
3736 Introd    |             the banquet spread for the reflective and critical faculties in
3737 XXXIII    |                 in this one, whosoever reflects, embraces up to their last
3738 Introd    |               century, with fluent and refluent tides, clash beneath the
3739 CXCVII    |                 It is an orgy of false reformers who have not one idea, not
3740 LXV       |                stay a week with you to refresh myself in your affectionate
3741 CCXXXVI   |            fall on me like a rain that refreshes, and develops at once all
3742 CLV       |            shake you as soon as I have regained my feet and my will, which
3743 XLVI      |               the performance. Maurice regales us this evening with marionettes.
3744 XC        |             But one gets accustomed to regarding all that as a military order,
3745 Introd    |              urges her faith in social regeneration; he vents his splenetic
3746 Introd    |       overwhelmed.~That a bad physical regimen, bad habits of work in excessive
3747 XXXI      |            consider him unhappy in the region where he is dwelling; but
3748 LVIII     |                who have had themselves registered at the Elysee. Oh! what
3749 CCLXXVIII |            chimerical to me to want to regulate oneself according to its
3750 CCI       |               is better. The school of rehabilitations has led us to see no difference
3751 CCLXXIV   |                 fooled again!~My dress rehearsal was deadly! Every reporter
3752 CCXCI     |              reserved on the Boulevard Reine Hortense. I shall be less
3753 Introd    |                 so sweetly, Flaubert’s reiterated and increasingly ferocious
3754 CCXC      |                I know that you are not rejoicing over the death of poor Michel.
3755 XLVI      |               anyone can follow him or rejoin him.~And good-night, dear
3756 CCCXVI    |                And when you shall have rejoined her, when the great-grand-children
3757 Introd    |              for the moment assenting, rejoins: “Men are ferocious and
3758 CCXVII    |              to life again without new relapses. He is the soul and the
3759 Introd    |          complex story of her personal relationships, so we must compress the
3760 CXCVII    |               of all, is without doubt relatively a great good, the only consolation
3761 CLV       |               Today we have rain which relaxes, tomorrow we shall have
3762 CCLXVIII  |             about it! Saint-Antoine is relegated, as far as I am concerned,
3763 LX        |                is rare and if I do not relent so that they can nurse me,
3764 XVI       |             half saint. And the Celtic relics, uncontestably curious for
3765 CXXII     |               concerning yourself with relief funds, and even with agriculture,
3766 LXXI      |              That old book needs to be relieved from a few inversions, there
3767 Introd    |            somewhat austerely with her religiose enthusiasms and with her
3768 CXCVII    |         occasion presents itself. I am reluctant to seize this opportunity
3769 CIV       |               I am not in the midst of remaking the bourgeois! It is high
3770 CXVIII    |            about the book and made the remark that he had gotten it very
3771 Introd    |                for social reformation, remarks gravely and not without
3772 CCXII     |         passage of a hundred lines, he remembers a weak epithet! he gave
3773 CCCXII    |               Adieu, dear good master. Remembrances to all yours.~I embrace
3774 Introd    |              can see no escape for the remnant save in science and aristocratic
3775 CCLXXXIV  |             December, 1874~I am having remorse about you. It is a crime
3776 Introd    |             weakness in others and the remorseless self-examination and self-torment
3777 Introd    |               to her point of view, to remould him nearer to her heart’
3778 LXXXVII   |              seems MEAN to you, I will remove it.~But I am convinced beforehand
3779 CLXIV     |        experience. It is a question of rendering it useful to art when one
3780 CCXC      |              is spoiled by approximate renderings.~The child is a singular
3781 III       |             arrive in Paris, give me a rendezvous. And at that we shall make
3782 CCLXXVI   |         servility towards Michel Levy) rends me at the Brabant dinner,
3783 CXCVII    |          mysteries are sealed by fear, renounce noble sympathies, live on
3784 Introd    |            experience, she expects the renovation of humanity by some religious,
3785 CCXXXII   |              dealer in Paris who would rent me all the books that I
3786 Introd    |              her to come out openly in renunciation of her faith in humanity
3787 CCXLVI    |               with my two novels? I am repaid, I think that they are SATISFACTORY,
3788 CXCVII    |               behalf of brotherhood to repair the ravages of hate. We
3789 IV        |               throat. That will be the Reparation of my sins and the punishment
3790 CCCII     |               book, as I have told you repeatedly, but you have not listened
3791 LVI       |              what they see. Everything repeats itself and goes over and
3792 CLXXVII   |             hope comes to me, I try to repel it, and yet, in the very
3793 CCXXXVI   |                fascinates her, to know repels her. She is as lazy as monsieur,
3794 CCI       |           thief blessed because he has repented! To repent is good, but
3795 LXXXVI    |               he who is charged in the repertory with the parts of the dull
3796 XCI       |         friends one loves change. This replacement of one soul by another,
3797 XC        |               to her. Father Hyacinthe replaces for her every friendship,
3798 CCIII     |            SHALL I SEND THIS TO YOU?~I replied the same day; simply by
3799 CCLXXV    |           guiltiest ones are those who report it to you. I think it is
3800 CLIV      |             dialogue that Madame Cornu reported to me.~She wants you to
3801 CCLXXXVII |            Catholic. ALL PARIS and the reporters were there in force!~Your
3802 CCLXIV    |             absolutely against it. The reports of messieurs the prefects
3803 Introd    |               idealizations of it; her representations of the peasant are not corroborated
3804 CVII      |           master? Should one excite or repress the sensitiveness of children?
3805 CCVII     |               letters! and what anger!—repressed—unfortunately! At last,
3806 Introd    |          letter which denounces modern republicanism, universal suffrage, compulsory
3807 CXCVII    |                accord in me to make me repulse whatever attempts to make
3808 XVII      |             the Bretons who seem to me repulsive animals. A propos of Celtic
3809 Introd    |                 which are of a ghastly repulsiveness; the same minuteness of
3810 Introd    |                plot, she won her early reputation as the apologist for free
3811 I         |          months entirely alone. Is the request indiscreet? If not, a thousand
3812 CCLVII    |               a gigantic story, but it requires one to toe the mark to tell
3813 CLXXXV    |              Badinguet and of William: requisitions, suppressions of newspapers,
3814 Introd    |                abandoned criticism and research for the Beautiful in favor
3815 XLI       |             anything. There will be no resemblance.~Oh no! I have not found
3816 Introd    |            dear master”; but he rather resented the implication that his
3817 CLXI      |              written anything. Nervous reservoirs are exhausted. As soon as
3818 CLXXXVIII |          thieves, and they pillage the residences of the rich, because they
3819 LXXI      |               waters. I have so little resistance.~I do not hide the pleasure
3820 Introd    |               again with old power the resonant golden notes. Her reply,
3821 CCIII     |                it: I have had to aid a respectable and interesting person [
3822 CCCI      |            principle, any more than of respecting the old ones. Therefore
3823 LX        |              ready when I am there, to respond to your call. I am a little
3824 CXCVII    |               all of whose good or bad responsibilities I consent to accept rather
3825 CLXXII    |             But the war is a good deal responsible for it. I think that we
3826 XLVI      |                 The air of the country restores me, or patience, or THE
3827 LX        |               a coast settlement, very restricted, very tanned; fishing for
3828 CXXV      |               normal being again.~I am resuming my letter interrupted for
3829 CXCVII    |                inaugurate by faith the resurrection of the country.~G. Sand~
3830 XCIII     |               creature? But that would retard the movement! That would
3831 CCLXX     |            gave me hysterics.~So as to retemper myself in something stronger,
3832 CCLI      |             must, like the rhinoceros, retire into solitude and await
3833 Introd    |             Her reply, with its direct retorts to Flaubert, is not perhaps
3834 CLXXXVI   |              almost simple thing.~What retrogressions! What savages! How they
3835 CCXXVI    |            soon as I saw my dear world reunited and well again, I collapsed.
3836 CCCII     |               age. It is then that art reveals itself in its sweetness;
3837 CXXXIII   |               the very latest, to keep revel with us. I think only of
3838 CLVI      |             life. I have never had any revelation nor document about her,
3839 XLIII     |      everything! So that with a modest revenue and an unproductive profession
3840 XLVII     |                worries about money; my revenues are very small, but they
3841 XXXIII    |             for one might be quite the reverse for another. Let us ask
3842 XLVII     |            Unless I have extraordinary reverses, I shall have enough to
3843 CCLXIV    |            when the thing is finished, reviewed and corrected, perhaps he
3844 PrefNote  |            have generously assisted in revising the manuscript.~A. L. McKenzie~
3845 LXXI      |                were satisfied with the revivals at the Odeon. When shall
3846 Introd    |         Clairmont in Switzerland—young revoltes, all of them, nourished
3847 CLXXII    |            have for universal suffrage revolts me more than the infallibility
3848 Introd    |        serenity—the serenity of an old revolutionist who no longer expects victory
3849 CXXXIII   |              opportune in this time of REVOLUTIONISTS. The good progressives,
3850 CLXXI     |               at night, Maurice with a revolver and I with a lantern. The
3851 CCXLVI    |         towards it, I do still, and my reward is to approach it continually
3852 Introd    |               letters, is sufficiently rewarding. In a relationship extending
3853 CCLXXXI   |               of the Odeon “in need of rewriting from one end to the other.”
3854 CXCVI     |                them.~The Odeon has let Reynard go, an artist of the first
3855 CLVII     |                one from a gentleman in Rheims who congratulated me on
3856 Introd    |               several senses; the same rhetorical heightening—e.g., the “stalactites
3857 CCLXXX    |              been ill with the grippe, rheumatic, and often absolutely deprived
3858 CCLXXXVIII|               concerns only nerves and rheumatisms, and I have lived seventy
3859 CLXXII    |          gigantic! He admires Musset’s Rhin, and asks if Musset has
3860 CCLI      |              taste. One must, like the rhinoceros, retire into solitude and
3861 CCXVI     |               was enough to kill three rhinoceroses, but nevertheless I am well.
3862 LXXXV     |        extinguished in the soul of our rhymesters. It has been said that without
3863 Introd    |            dying woman, the jeering of ribald mercenaries, the cackle
3864 Introd    |                tightly drawn skin, his ribs severally protruded and
3865 XLI       |                Simonin lived at 15 rue Richelieu, I wrote to your mother
3866 CCXXXIX   |              But it is so. Explain the riddle. The feminine being has
3867 CXC       |              They have appointed Raoul Rigault and company. They know how
3868 CXCIX     |              mean tricks for us to try righteousness and science.~If France does
3869 Introd    |              The author is to take and rigorously maintain a position outside
3870 LVI       |                than to say mass and to ring the bell for the adoration
3871 XLVI      |           friend of my heart. They are ringing for the performance. Maurice
3872 Introd    |              no longer depressed. I am ripe, you talk of my serenity,
3873 CXCVII    |             And if only this ear could ripen in a sure place, if only
3874 Introd    |             goodness of heart that has ripened into wisdom. For Flaubert,
3875 CCXXXIX   |              of the blackguards in his riper years, this last killed
3876 CCXCVIII  |               my feet so much, without risking atrocious pains. I am patient
3877 XXXVI     |               which the jealousy of my rival made me lose, it is in these
3878 XXXIX     |             poor Manceau called me the ROAD-MENDER, and there is nothing less
3879 CLXXXVIII |                what a mess! “Boiled or roasted, same thing!” and at the
3880 CLXXXVII  |                they ruin it, dirty it, rob it? Your books, your bibelots,
3881 CCLXVI    |                Azor (what a name!). He robbed the ecclesiastics. Never
3882 CCXLIII   |                like the episode of the robbers either. The reappearance
3883 CXXII     |                the villages in France, Robert Houdins to work miracles!
3884 CIV       |            better than to rehabilitate Robespierre! Note Hamel’s book! If the
3885 CCXLIII   |                to be in the world.”~La Roche aux Fades is an exquisite
3886 LX        |          storms troubled them in their rocky coves; intermarrying, inoffensive
3887 CI        |               and many of them”? It is rococo, but it pleases me. Now,
3888 Introd    |               three thousand francs to Rodolphe; or the following bit, only
3889 XCVI      |             The hateful performance of Roger is also against it. So that
3890 CLVII     |               her a little. The papers roll us in the dirt every day
3891 CXXXVIII  |             have you?~I continue to be rolled in the mud. La Gironde calls
3892 LXV       |                 we shall go to see the rollers and the beaches next month
3893 Introd    |                 As a young girl wildly romping with the peasant children
3894 CCXXVIII  |            dedication of the statue of Ronsard, which occurs the 23rd of
3895 CXXXV     |               with me “because of pere Roque and the cancan at the Tuileries.”
3896 CXXXIV    |       characters understand it or not. Rosanette at Fontainebleau does not
3897 LVI       |              melancholies of honey and roses which are none the less
3898 CCI       |                condemned to death like Rossel! It is madness! These gentlemen,
3899 CXXV      |             child. Why can’t I put the rosy, tanned face of Aurore in
3900 CCLXXXIV  |               is sinking gently like a rotten hulk, and the hope of salvage,
3901 XXXII     |             old, he will be a cowardly roue at fifty. Everything has
3902 XVI       |            which should not be touched roughly nor thoughtlessly.~Sainte-Beuve,
3903 CCLXXIII  |                What do you think of La Rounat, who in his page implores
3904 CCCV      |               mine. I believe that the rounding of the phrase is nothing.
3905 CCCII     |             you. You work, however, to rouse him and to interest him;
3906 CCXXXI    |             the lake of Gaube? And the route of Saint-Sauveur? Heavens!
3907 CXLIV     |              in people’s minds. It has rubbed the open wound, people recognize
3908 XCI       |       favorably by the bourgeois. I am rubbing their noses in their own
3909 LVI       |     selfishness?~My optimism has had a rude jolt of late. I worked up
3910 XXI       |              HAS SOME GOOD POINTS, THE RUFFIAN!~Summon me at the time of
3911 CCCI      |              add “my school.” But I am ruining my temperament in trying
3912 XXXV      |          equilibrium which Nature, our ruler, herself puts in our instincts,
3913 Introd    |                own master passion, her ruling principle. George Sand was
3914 CXCVII    |              we have heard the thunder rumble a long time before?~No,
3915 CCLXXXIII |          overflow. It does one good to ruminate over what one has assimilated
3916 CXCVI     |               the service of making me rummage in my waste basket. I find
3917 CLVI      |               Letter written about the rumour current, that George Sand
3918 LV        |          librarian at Rouen.~Since the rumours of war have quieted down,
3919 CXXXIII   |              There will certainly be a rumpus; your subject will be quite
3920 CCCX      |             was finished last night, I rushed upon your book when morning
3921 III       |     disheartened by the populace which rushes by under my windows in pursuit
3922 CCXLIII   |             polite at the theatre! The Russian is a simple-minded, natural
3923 CCLXX     |                 the Emperor of all the Russias does not like the Muses.
3924 LVIII     |              profoundly; I found him a rustic. On a parallel with Monsieur
3925 PrefNote  |            given by Professor Sherman, Ruth M. Sherman, and Professor
3926 CXLIV     |            then more than both? Chi lo sa?—He hasn’t let himself out
3927 CLXXIV    |              fit to be put in the same sack with Isidore!~This people
3928 CLXXVI    |               are now in power will be sacrificed, and the Republic will follow
3929 CLXXI     |             authorized Marseillaise, a sacrilege. Men are ferocious and conceited
3930 CCLXIII   |             but I perceive the odor of sacristies that increases. If that
3931 CCXCVI    |               and do our tasks without saddening those who suffer with us.~
3932 CCXLIX    |           Joseph de Maistre. They have saddled us enough with this gentleman!
3933 CXXXV     |              compares me to Marquis de Sade, whom he confesses he has
3934 CLXXXVIII |                have a revolution after Sadowa, nor Italy after Novara,
3935 CLXXXIV   |               have come out of the war safe and sound. You would live
3936 CCLXIII   |                flowering of the meadow saffron always warns me that it
3937 LXXXVI    |             Arbonne? There is a little Sahara there which ought to be
3938 XVI       |                on a great ship in full sail, or on a fisherman’s vessel.
3939 XLV       |            received a little note from Saint-Beuve which reassures about his
3940 LXXXVIII  |           being rehearsed at the Porte Saint-Martin (so you have fallen out
3941 LXXI      |              Memoires de l’Academie de Saint-Quentin.)~
3942 CCXXXI    |                Gaube? And the route of Saint-Sauveur? Heavens! How lucky one
3943 CCXLIX    |         praised him beginning with the saint-simonians and ending with A. Comte.
3944 CLXXXV    |       oscillate between the society of Saint-Vincent de Paul and the International.
3945 CXXX      |              attempt with de la T(our) Saint-Y(bars). I yielded my turn
3946 CLXXXVIII |           themselves to God and to the saints. We, however, who are advanced,
3947 CCCIX     |       Flamarande, and what a man is M. Salcede. The narrative of the kidnapping
3948 IV        |              to have written Fanie and Salkenpeau I am content not to have
3949 CCLXXXVII |               ago to ask me to “do the Salon” in le Rappel. I declined
3950 CCLXXVII  |             Plauchut is the joy of the salons! happy old man! always content
3951 CXCVII    |              only on fertile lands, in salubrious air. It does not take root
3952 CLXXVII   |              must not despair! It is a salutary punishment! We were really
3953 CCLXXXIV  |           rotten hulk, and the hope of salvage, even for the staunchest,
3954 Introd    |                an instrument of social salvation—it is her means of touching
3955 XLVIII    |               A creature of incredible sanctity and perfection. Immense
3956 CCXIII    |                did not have the little sanctuary, the interior little shrine,
3957 CCLXI     |              of two thousand meters at Sancy, which combining an icy
3958 CCCXIX    |       Literature~THE END OF THE GEORGE SAND-GUSTAVE FLAUBERT LETTERS~ ~
3959 Introd    |                Aurelien de Seze; Jules Sandeau, her first collaborator,
3960 LXXXVII   |                by your advice, saw the sands of Arboronne. It is so beautiful
3961 LVIII     |            arise. What a heavy cart of sandstone to drag along! And you pity
3962 CCLXVII   |             good things with which you sandwich them. I have stopped laughing
3963 Introd    |            from a temperament lyrical, sanguine, imaginative, optimistic
3964 Introd    |             has renounced the cheerful sanities of the world:~“I pass entire
3965 CCCXVIII  |         MAURICE SAND Saint-Gratien par Sannois, 20th August, 1877~Thank
3966 XXXVI     |               of the celebrated Madame Saqui and bore off palms and left
3967 XXI       |            prefer filth; when they are sated with dirt they will eat
3968 Introd    |     humanitarian enthusiasm. Gradually satiated with erotic passion, gradually
3969 Introd    |            which I repeat to myself to satiety. There are phrases there
3970 CLVI      |             friends.~But I don’t write satires: I am ignorant even of the
3971 Introd    |                observing, cynical, and satirical. She insists upon natural
3972 CCCV      |                and Madame Viardot made saucer-eyes, comical to behold. In your
3973 LXXI      |            Paris, because I have to go sauntering in Auteuil in order to discover
3974 XCIII     |           Saint-Gueltas, like Count de Sauvieres, like Rebec! and even like
3975 CLXX      |            natural condition of man is savagery; (3) because war in itself
3976 XXXIII    |                all. But a great wisdom saves us; we know how to say to
3977 Introd    |               attested the power of a “saving grace,” resident in the
3978 CXCV      |             always needs a good God, a Saviour), isn’t it perhaps capable
3979 CCCV      |             from le Philosophe sans le savoir? That is beyond me. Your
3980 CCLXXXI   |            went to the baths at Aix in Savoy, and in two weeks he was
3981 LXXXV     |            Sunday, 5 July, 1868~I have sawed wood hard for six weeks.
3982 CCXVI     |            nevertheless I am well. The scabbard must be solid, for the blade
3983 XLVIII    |           sugar loaf. Brain on a lofty scale, head of an Indian, with
3984 CCCXIII   |              make it seem real. Naissa scalping, and then wiping her hands
3985 LXXXI     |               so hard that you will be scandalised. I shall see you on Sunday
3986 Introd    |               one thing, which shocks, scandalises me, the small concern, namely,
3987 CXXX      |             taste for disputes and the scandals of the side-scenes and the
3988 CV        |               down again as Cassandra, Scapin, Mezzetin, Figaro, Basile,
3989 CLXXI     |               for drinking is becoming scarce; the harvests are almost
3990 LVI       |             Hell of Dante into that of Scarron.~Of what are you thinking,
3991 XXXV      |             his soul prevents him from scattering and wasting them.~The artist
3992 CCXXXIX   |              monster of egoism. My Moi scatters itself in books so that
3993 VII       |              By leaving Paris, gare de Sceaux, at I o’clock, you will
3994 XXXIII    |               thousand combinations of scenic action which can vary infinitely,
3995 Introd    |               wholly acquiesce in that scheme of things which M. Caro
3996 CLXXII    |        drubbing which entered into the schemes of Providence for reestablishing
3997 CXIII     |             sumachs of the garden, the schumakre.~Then Saturday morning you
3998 CCLXIV    |                phrases, this continual scintillation irritates like seltzer water,
3999 CCLII     |           deception.~You see that I am scolding you; but while embracing
4000 CCLVIII   |           tomorrow, cured after a half score of river baths. But I find
4001 Introd    |                opportunity for a short scornful sally. “Go to live in the
4002 CCXXXII   |           writers are the same; Walter Scott excepted, all lack a plot.
4003 LXIX      |               love us enough for that, scoundrel that you are! You think
4004 CCXXXIX   |            There was a crowd. A lot of scoundrels and buffoons came to advertise