FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). L.A.S. addressed to his frien - Lot 169

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FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). L.A.S. addressed to his frien - Lot 169
FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). L.A.S. addressed to his friend Edmond Laporte (stamped lower left). Concarneau, n.d. "Thursday" [October 1875]. 2 pp. 1/2 in-8 on blue paper. Two erasures. Very beautiful letter from a devastated Flaubert who begins the writing of La Légende de Saint-Julien l'hospitalier, during a stay in "Catholic Brittany". "I am better, although I am still not very well. Sometimes prostrations occur to me where it seems to me that I am going to die, so much I feel annihilated. It is the digestion of all the cups of bitterness that I swallowed this summer. However I wrote about 6 pages of my St-Julien. I read a little of Saint-Simon, & I reread for the thousandth time the tales of Mr de Voltaire. And then, I give my companion lectures on the Old Man! He bites [...]". Flaubert then gives himself over to a brief study of morals and comments on the legal affairs of Quimper and the Breton weather: "The weather is becoming abominable - and the squalls follow one another so frequently that I am obliged to stay almost all day in my inn room, by the fire [...]". It was to distract Flaubert, distraught after the ruin of Commanville and his own, that Georges Pouchet invited him to Concarneau, where he was the director of a marine physiology laboratory. Pouchet's father was Flaubert's natural history teacher at the Lycée de Rouen.
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