A2. Hortense ALLART (1801-1879). L.A., Herblay Saturday [184 - Lot 2

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A2. Hortense ALLART (1801-1879). L.A., Herblay Saturday [184 - Lot 2
A2. Hortense ALLART (1801-1879). L.A., Herblay Saturday [1847], to SAINTE-BEUVE; 3 1/2 pages in-4, addressed. Beautiful letter. "It seems to me that I have said many unpleasant things to you. Let me therefore compliment you on these charming articles about the Greeks. How full of taste, knowledge and grace! It is the letters as they are heard by the people really in love with the muses"... She comments on these articles, sometimes praising, sometimes criticizing such and such a passage... She recognizes that "there is a certain audacity in expressing myself as I do in front of a master such as you, but it is because I believe you to be the first today that I dare to make this rather silly and timid criticism. I repeat, one feels in these portraits a writer above his subject, who is having fun, who is wasting his time. [...] You spoke well of Pascal, Montaigne, Milton, Bacon, your glimpses of all that is great, in passing, are worthy of the best writers, so go to the top since you can, it is a duty when you can. Port-Royal was already great only by interval, but it is there where it was beautiful that you are the best "...
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