54 - Julie de LESPINASSE (1732–1776). Salon hostess and letter-writer, friend of d’Alembert, “She who lived and died for love.” L. A. (No place, no date) 4 pp., in-4.

Julie de LESPINASSE (1732–1776). Salon hostess and letter-writer, friend of d’Alembert, “She who lived and died for love.” L. A. (No place, no date) 4 pp., in-4. “...You are a thousand times too kind to concern yourself with me, my misfortune, and my means. Alas! I find that everything you say to me is full of sensitivity, accuracy, and reason, but it is like speaking wisdom in Charenton and enlightenment in Les Quinze-Vingts. Nothing that is good, nothing that is consoling, is of any use to me anymore. I hate life and yet cherish the cause of my pain; I spend my days invoking death and yet bless nature for having brought me into the world. I have loved: that inexpressible happiness would make me begin to live again under the same conditions; I long for the moments when I waited with bated breath for the mail to arrive; I long for the despair that tomorrow still left me with—oh, do not tell me that I must be consoled; one must love, lament, suffer, and die. Such is the sad purpose of the days I have left to drag out in this dreary life...”.