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Edgar QUINET (1803-1875). 5 L.A.S., 3 L.A. (one incomplete), 1836-1837 and n.d., to Léon Faucher; 24pages mostly in-8. Beautiful correspondence. Heidelberg June 4, 1836: "Here I am for several months now, hard at work, and defying the gods, like Ajax, as long as they let me have the light!"... Heidelberg October 17: his manuscript is ready, and he will see his friend again in a month: "So prepare to recognize, all bristling and wild, an unfortunate night bird emerging from its tree hollow"... June 15 or 16, 1837: "I am in the midst of the eternal combat of God and man. Is there any other drama? - My poem will be a protest against Fatality [...] A day will come, when man will tire of so much self-sacrifice; and the old cause of liberty will reappear"... [1837], he has just reread and annotated the classics from Boileau to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau; he would like to have Faucher's ideas on his play, which he will send to him... - "I would have liked to get out of this enervated and lamentable poetry of our time; and reach the virile poetry which will certainly replace us"... - Baden May 16: "Michelet and you, you are about the only ones, it seems to me, on whose friendship I can eternally count"... Etc. Attached is a l.a.s. from Léon Faucher.
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Edgar QUINET (1803-1875). 5 L.A.S., 3 L.A. (one incomplete), 1836-1837 and n.d., to Léon Faucher; 24pages mostly in-8. Beautiful correspondence. Heidelberg June 4, 1836: "Here I am for several months now, hard at work, and defying the gods, like Ajax, as long as they let me have the light!"... Heidelberg October 17: his manuscript is ready, and he will see his friend again in a month: "So prepare to recognize, all bristling and wild, an unfortunate night bird emerging from its tree hollow"... June 15 or 16, 1837: "I am in the midst of the eternal combat of God and man. Is there any other drama? - My poem will be a protest against Fatality [...] A day will come, when man will tire of so much self-sacrifice; and the old cause of liberty will reappear"... [1837], he has just reread and annotated the classics from Boileau to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau; he would like to have Faucher's ideas on his play, which he will send to him... - "I would have liked to get out of this enervated and lamentable poetry of our time; and reach the virile poetry which will certainly replace us"... - Baden May 16: "Michelet and you, you are about the only ones, it seems to me, on whose friendship I can eternally count"... Etc. Attached is a l.a.s. from Léon Faucher.
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