Charles BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867). L.A.S. "Carlos,"... - Lot 108 - Ader

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Charles BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867). L.A.S. "Carlos,"... - Lot 108 - Ader
Charles BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867). L.A.S. "Carlos," [Lyon] November 23, 1833, to his half-brother Alphonse Baudelaire, "substitute judge in Fontainebleau"; 3 pages in-4, address with postmarks. Beautiful letter of youth to his half-brother. Baudelaire is then a schoolboy in Lyon; he is in the fifth grade, aged twelve. Baudelaire, intern at the Royal College of Lyon, thanks his brother for "the beautiful edition of Juvenal" that he offered him... "I want to give you a present on New Year's Day; you can already guess that it is a first or second place. That's right. I will make every effort and I am sure that I will succeed, since last year I was second in all subjects and since I got the 4th place for excellence. To my shame, I must admit that I obtained these advantages without much effort. But this year I want to take the plunge so that if I don't succeed, I won't have anything to blame myself for. It's really nice to hear your name proclaimed for an award, to which you add this sentence 7 times nominated! Nominated in all subjects! And then it's your mother or father who crowns you! [...] with these prizes, one accumulates book after book, and then the gifts of the parents and then those of the brother too. Because they are beautiful. This Juvenal is magnificent"... With the help of 3 drawings, he explains the gift he received from "Papa" [Mr. Aupick], a "phenakisticope. This word is as strange as the invention. [...] It is a cardboard box in which there is a small mirror that is placed on a table between two candles. There is also a handle to which a cardboard circle with small holes all around is adapted. On top of it we add another cardboard drawing, the drawing turned towards the ice. Then one makes turn, and one looks by the small holes in the ice where one sees very pretty drawings "... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. I, p. 21. Exhibition Baudelaire, Petit Palais 1968 (n° 37).
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