Léon BLOY (1846-1917). L.A.S. " L.B. " (minute), January 2, - Lot 200

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Léon BLOY (1846-1917). L.A.S. " L.B. " (minute), January 2, - Lot 200
Léon BLOY (1846-1917). L.A.S. " L.B. " (minute), January 2, 1898, to Abbé Auguste Rastoul, vicar at Saint-Pierre de Montrouge; 2 pages large in-8 filled with a small tight handwriting, with erasures and corrections. Amazing draft of a letter to his confessor, about Salvation by the Jews. He mentions the case of Father Olmer, "a Jew by birth who finds, when necessary, enormous sums of money for Christian works. These are your words. You said them to me when I had just given myself up for a year, like a very submissive child or like a slave to the Blessed Virgin, on your advice. ...] Hated by Catholics as well as non-Catholics because of my independence & my thirst for the Absolute, I present the rare phenomenon of a superior writer, considered even by a few to be the equal of a man of genius, & who cannot find his bread. Not only is no Catholic publicity favourable to me, but my name cannot be pronounced by a Christian mouth. You are, my dear abbot, the only priest who has been able to swallow me, to this day. The repugnance of non-Catholics, who are usually more open to things of art than their opponents, is less great, indeed, less insurmountable. But I have been forced to chastise them so many times & they have received from me such appalling thefts that even those who read me most willingly would rather have their skin ripped off from their buttocks than appear to care for me in any way. Hence the failure of his books, and his "continual misery. Admirable misery, I assure you & that God seems to have done for us. Two of our children died from it. Blessed be his fearsome Name. When the peril is too great, we pray to Him with strength in an unexpected and mysterious way. However I have my work to do. I must do the task that God has given me. ...] Nothing at home, not even enough to live on for a day & debts of all kinds. In short, the most ignominious bankruptcy in the short term & the immediate impossibility of subsisting. God h
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