Null Jeanne SCHULTZ (1862-1910) novelist. 17 L.A.S., Paris June 1898-June 1900, …
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Jeanne SCHULTZ (1862-1910) novelist. 17 L.A.S., Paris June 1898-June 1900, to General Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes; approx. 150 pages in-8 (one L.A. incomplete at the end). Beautiful and interesting friendly correspondence to the commanding general in Indochina. [After several campaigns in Africa and Indochina, General Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes (1839-1900) was appointed member of the Admiralty Council in November 1889. Promoted to major general on March 24, 1890, he became permanent inspector general of naval artillery. In this capacity, he carried out several inspection missions in military ports. In 1899, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of French troops in Indochina. He died of dysentery in Hanoi]. We can only give a few extracts from these long letters.February 25, 1899. "You were supposed to tell me all about your route. [...] The negroes, the palanquins, the slaves who populated the shore as you descended on the land you are about to command. [...] Take back the Indies from the English, and come back here"... May 21. On Captain Marchand's return after the Fachoda affair: "We are discussing where he will land, and if he will land? [...] Triumphs and jeers are being prepared for him... This time, I'll go into the crowd, just like the poor Chinese you've knocked off your route, and I'll shout as much as I can in his honor"... July 28. She heard that "you work like a nigger; that you watch Indian dancers, gilded and bejeweled from top to bottom of their pretty persons. That you gave pompous dinners and courted all the women. Not one of these traits surprised me about you"... October 19. December 30, on Chinese affairs, "the assassination of our poor officers", and the "battles or engagements that have been carefully concealed from us, but which are rumored. Is it a state secret?"... March 31, 1900. "But how I pity your task! To be the one to decide (after the guilty party, however) on the misfortune or preserved peace of an entire family"... April 14. She dined at the École de Guerre next to Marchand: "He doesn't have the vivacity and primesaut that immediately give you a character. Cold, calm, almost slow, with his deep-set eyes and a bit of stiffness in his body. Very simple, you feel he's not really where he is. He follows his idea or his memories"... May 31: "It's impossible, when I see China and Troubles in China, not to think of you. Let's say there's a great distance between you and the Boxers, won't this struggle have its aftermath at home? Is this great country, destined to eat us in the future, not going to be, first of all, put to bread by the European powers? [...] and that despicable Dreyfus affair that we're going to reopen"... The highlight of the Exposition is "the Ceylon Pavilion, where we're going to have tea. I don't know which newspaper reported that all the women with unhealthy minds ran there, attracted by the superb negroes serving"... She was enchanted by the play L'Aiglon, "with words, ideas, heat and follies that are very French"... June 22. "These Chinese affairs are of great concern to me. [...] When I think that this scoundrel and sinister England could now pay for the ignominy of the Transvaal, if we marched without her or against her; that here we could take Morocco, while over there you and Russia would blow the Indies out of her hands"... Etc.

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Jeanne SCHULTZ (1862-1910) novelist. 17 L.A.S., Paris June 1898-June 1900, to General Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes; approx. 150 pages in-8 (one L.A. incomplete at the end). Beautiful and interesting friendly correspondence to the commanding general in Indochina. [After several campaigns in Africa and Indochina, General Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes (1839-1900) was appointed member of the Admiralty Council in November 1889. Promoted to major general on March 24, 1890, he became permanent inspector general of naval artillery. In this capacity, he carried out several inspection missions in military ports. In 1899, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of French troops in Indochina. He died of dysentery in Hanoi]. We can only give a few extracts from these long letters.February 25, 1899. "You were supposed to tell me all about your route. [...] The negroes, the palanquins, the slaves who populated the shore as you descended on the land you are about to command. [...] Take back the Indies from the English, and come back here"... May 21. On Captain Marchand's return after the Fachoda affair: "We are discussing where he will land, and if he will land? [...] Triumphs and jeers are being prepared for him... This time, I'll go into the crowd, just like the poor Chinese you've knocked off your route, and I'll shout as much as I can in his honor"... July 28. She heard that "you work like a nigger; that you watch Indian dancers, gilded and bejeweled from top to bottom of their pretty persons. That you gave pompous dinners and courted all the women. Not one of these traits surprised me about you"... October 19. December 30, on Chinese affairs, "the assassination of our poor officers", and the "battles or engagements that have been carefully concealed from us, but which are rumored. Is it a state secret?"... March 31, 1900. "But how I pity your task! To be the one to decide (after the guilty party, however) on the misfortune or preserved peace of an entire family"... April 14. She dined at the École de Guerre next to Marchand: "He doesn't have the vivacity and primesaut that immediately give you a character. Cold, calm, almost slow, with his deep-set eyes and a bit of stiffness in his body. Very simple, you feel he's not really where he is. He follows his idea or his memories"... May 31: "It's impossible, when I see China and Troubles in China, not to think of you. Let's say there's a great distance between you and the Boxers, won't this struggle have its aftermath at home? Is this great country, destined to eat us in the future, not going to be, first of all, put to bread by the European powers? [...] and that despicable Dreyfus affair that we're going to reopen"... The highlight of the Exposition is "the Ceylon Pavilion, where we're going to have tea. I don't know which newspaper reported that all the women with unhealthy minds ran there, attracted by the superb negroes serving"... She was enchanted by the play L'Aiglon, "with words, ideas, heat and follies that are very French"... June 22. "These Chinese affairs are of great concern to me. [...] When I think that this scoundrel and sinister England could now pay for the ignominy of the Transvaal, if we marched without her or against her; that here we could take Morocco, while over there you and Russia would blow the Indies out of her hands"... Etc.

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