Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A.S., Croisset 13 December [1859], to Aglaé Sabatier, "the President"; 2 pages in-8, on blue paper. Nice tender letter to the President, telling her about her sister Adèle-Irma Sabatier, known as "Bébé" or "Doudou" [mistress of the painter Fernand Boissard, whose daughter she had died in October 1859]. " Would you, beautiful President, please give Miss Doudou all my compliments and condolences for the death of her poor little child, whom I learned about the night before last. I am not writing to her, for a thousand reasons. - But the best of them all is that you will get along much better than I will, as a woman. - Tell him of those things that make one weep & relieve. There she comes again as before. - Nothing remains of the affair but the memory. This is the end of human things. What a sad masquerade existence is! As for you, you know the feelings I carry for you. Silence is more eloquent than all words. When you have nothing better to do, write to me to tell me if you are bored a lot & if the portraiture is making its way. [The President painted miniatures .