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Lot n° 150
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Maurice de GUÉRIN (1810-1839). L.A.S. "Maurice",... - Lot 150 - Ader
Maurice de GUÉRIN (1810-1839). L.A.S. "Maurice", [Paris] Tuesday 1 Xbre [December 1829], to his father M. de Guérin au Cayla; 4 pages in-8, address.
Beautiful and rare letter from his youth to his father. The letters of Maurice de Guérin, who died at twenty-nine, are very rare.
... "What happiness a letter brings you when it comes from so far away! One is all in enjoyment: the fingers quiver with pleasure while breaking the seal, the heart is moved by the feelings and the memory that it presents, and the eyes like to contemplate the characters traced by a cherished hand. [...] Here I am, then, transported to a new theatre; my letters will no longer speak to you of college, of classes, of professors; [...] a complete change takes place in those who leave the regular and peaceful life of the colleges to pass to this other mode of existence which is called the life of the world.
He then gives his timetable: "I begin my day with what gives me enough to spend it, that is to say that I am going to give rehearsals to three little boys who are in seventh grade at the price of 15ll per month each, which is not much [...] It is thus at 6 o'clock in the morning that I get up to go and communicate my science to these young brains. At 7 o'clock, the lesson finished, I have lunch at the boarding house itself, (for I take all my meals there) and then I direct my steps towards the law school which is as far from my home as Cayla de Cahuzac; but this daily exercise contributes rather to maintain my health than to tire me; at 8 o'clock [...] I arrive at the school from where I leave at 10 o'clock. I then return home and study until nightfall. When night comes, I go to spend the evening in a reading room to which I subscribe at 4ll per month; there one is well heated, well lit, one [has] at one's disposal all the books and newspapers and one enjoys the double advantage of spending the evening pleasantly and at the same time saving wood and light. Thus I am at little cost subscribed to all the public papers: it is necessary to see me every evening surrounded by all these voices of the fame which publish the lie and the truth, to pass from one to the other, to hear alternately the two parties, to shrug the shoulders very often, to laugh sometimes and to bore me almost always of their eternal declamations. Finally, when my eyelids begin to droop, I leave the books and newspapers and go to my bed to seek oblivion of all their nonsense.
He likes to return sometimes "to the college [Stanislas] which left me such sweet memories"...
This letter seems to be unpublished.
Former Daniel Sickles collection (VII, 2776).
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