Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869). L.A.S., Saint-Point July - Lot 110

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Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869). L.A.S., Saint-Point July - Lot 110
Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869). L.A.S., Saint-Point July 22, 1853, to Louis de Ronchaud; 4 pages in-8 (small split in the fold). About his life in Saint-Point and about Turkey. He first speaks about the payment of a share, then questions his friend: "What are you doing? Is the Greco-Modern comedy finished? have you started a bigger drama? or are you content with the shadow, the course of the streams, and the blue silhouette of the Jura? It is better to combine the two things. When you have a satiety of solitude come to see us at St Point. Our two isolations together will make a sweet world. I am infinitely better and I am starting to work again, not as a poet, but as a maneuverer. He will come to Paris for a few days around September 25: "Come before or after. But alas, no harvest! The winter has harvested for us, we are left with nothing but vine shoots I am not talking to you about the war. I don't believe in it: I receive this morning from the Porte the proof that she thinks the same. She sends me the complete execution of my treaty with her and she pays in the midst of her misery. I will therefore lead you as Cicero led his disciples, to spend three months in my villa on the Gulf of Smyrna"...
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