Octave MIRBEAU (1848-1917). Signed autograph manuscript, sou - Lot 307

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Octave MIRBEAU (1848-1917). Signed autograph manuscript, sou - Lot 307
Octave MIRBEAU (1848-1917). Signed autograph manuscript, souls of war, [September 1904]; 2 pages in-4 and half oblong page in-8. A vibrant article denouncing the non-intervention in the Russo-Japanese war, published in L'Humanité on September 25, 1904, cannot detach his thoughts from "this gloomy and painful Manchuria, where, with the consent of Europe, under the safeguard of the civilized world, and, in a way, under its blessing, one of the most abominable crimes of humanity is being carried out and continued... Mirbeau ironizes on the casualness of his compatriots, lovers of pleasures and refractory to intervention in a conflict engaged in by their allies, those who would like to wait for the complete victory of Russia, and who denigrate the "theoretical, purely metaphysical" victories of Japan. "Let's wait two, five, ten-twenty years, if we have to... We'll continue to slaughter each other there... But what are we risking?. Life is good, our restaurants are still the best in the world... There are always the prettiest girls in the theatres of Paris ... We watch the two peoples fighting as if we were watching a brawl on the public highway: "Let's only intervene when one of them is dead... This is, moreover, the true doctrine of diplomacy. See how it works with the Armenians!. She too, in order to intervene in these horrible massacres, waits until the last Armenian is killed! Finally, allies, not of the Russian people, whose infinite sufferings, like those of all peoples, moreover, are absolutely indifferent to us, but allies of the Czar, whose glory alone matters to us, let us be no less faithful tzarists than he, who recently pronounced these heroic and marvelous words: "As long as I have one man and one ruble left, I will not give in! For men belong to the Czar, don't they? ...] And when, after years of killing and slaughter, the poor devils who escaped the massacre return to their homes, the tzar and the Mikado will remind them to respect property an
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