SAND George (Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevant,... - Lot 189 - Varenne Enchères

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SAND George (Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevant,... - Lot 189 - Varenne Enchères
SAND George (Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevant, known as) [Paris, 1804 - Nohant, 1876], French novelist. Autograph letter signed, addressed to the director of the Magasin Pittoresque, Édouard Charton. Nohant June 16, 1862; 5 pages in-8° on paper with her embossed figure. G. Sand addresses a supplication to the feminist Marie Pape-Carpantier. She then evokes Lina Calamatta who later married Maurice Sand: "I am afraid to appear selfish in telling Calamatta and you how happy I am to have an adorable child to spoil. Does yours not find a tender mother, or does she lose the continuing influence of hers propitious? Or will the marriage of our children inspire in us a kind of instinctive jealousy against the one we entrust to take our place? I am nothing of the sort. It seems to me that my son, in adoring his companion, must love me even more for the love she inspires in me. Am I too enthusiastic or too optimistic? Will the future give a cruel denial to my dream of absolute union of three souls now melted into one? Why should it? No, I don't want to distrust my faith and believe in the possibility of its failures. Reassure me about the grief I see you in, or explain it to me, who knows if I can't console you or calm you down a little? It is not the desire that I lack, because you know, I honor you and I love you very sincerely. [...] I have not yet answered your question (a huge question!) about the communal library. I am thinking about it and so far I can't find anything. You have done the most [...] useful thing, the Magasin pittoresque. To the people, as to the children, it is necessary to illustrate ideas, to the people of the countryside especially, all work of mind is ordered by the vision of things. No chronicle is within the reach of someone who still stutters his own language. I need to think a little longer before telling you that in this respect I see nothing. And do you know what I see? The only thing I can think of? The picturesque store in small volumes, each subject treated by it, gathered in series of articles, put in order, selected, lightened or increased [...] and summarized by a short adhoc work. Thus, a volume of archaeology, a volume of archaeology, a volume of a branch of natural history, and so on, the woods would serve. See if it would be possible as cheap, but what will you find better than the tried and true thing?"
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