Autograph letter signed from Gustave Flaubert to Edmond Laporte, dated ‘Jeudi’ [October 1875]
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CMV36833
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Gros & Delettrez, Lot 169, ‘FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)’
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Autograph letter signed from Gustave Flaubert to Edmond Laporte, dated ‘Jeudi’ [October 1875]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Mon bon cher vieux, Comme mon Compagnon doit être
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Gustave Flaubert to Edmond Laporte, dated ‘Jeudi’ [October 1875]
Detailed Summary:
Flaubert writes that he is better, but not fully recovered, adding that sometimes prostrations occur to him where it seems that he is going to die which leave him feeling destroyed. He then notes that he wrote six pages of his La Légende de Saint-Julien, and read a little of Saint-Simon, as well as rereading for the thousandth time the tales of Voltaire. Flaubert then engages in a brief study of morals and comments on the legal affairs of Quimper and the Breton weather.
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2 ff.
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1
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The paper is blue. There is an ink blot on the first line of f.1r.
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Undecorated
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There are some minor corrections to f.2r in the form of crossings out.
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Passed at the Gros & Delettrez sale in Paris on 15 December 2022 for €1400 (Lot 169).
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