Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A., [Croisset, March... - Lot 146 - Ader

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Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A., [Croisset, March... - Lot 146 - Ader
Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A., [Croisset, March 1848], to Louise Colet; 3 pages in-4. On the revolution of February 1848. ... "You ask my opinion on everything that has just happened. Well, it is all very funny. There are very happy faces of discomfiture to see. I am deeply enjoying the contemplation of all the flattened ambitions. I do not know if the new form of government and the social state which will result from it will be favorable to Art. It is a question. One will not be able to be more bourgeois nor more null. As for more stupid, is it possible? I am well at ease that your drama gains there. A beautiful drama is worth a king. I will go and applaud it at the first performance, as I have already told you. I will be there - you will see me - I will work well and with all my heart ". Flaubert reproaches the circumlocutions and preambles to announce "the news" (Louise Colet was pregnant, and not of the works of Flaubert)... "I spare you the reflections she made me make and the exposition of the feelings she caused me. - There would be too much to say. I pity you. I pity you very much. I have suffered for you - & to put it better I have seen everything. You understand, don't you? It is to the artist that I address myself. Whatever happens, always count on me. Even if we don't write to each other, even if we don't see each other again, there will always be a link between us that won't fade away, a past whose consequences will remain. My monstrous personality, as you so kindly put it, is not such that it erases in me any honest feeling, human if you like. One day perhaps you will recognize it and you will repent to have spent about me so much sorrow and so much bitterness "... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. I, p. 492. Former collection of Colonel D. Sickles (II, 324).
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