[Anatole FRANCE] Léontine Lippmann, Madame Arman de CAILLAVET (1844-1910) femme de lettres, l'égérie d'Anatole France

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[Anatole FRANCE] Léontine Lippmann, Madame Arman de CAILLAVET (1844-1910) femme de lettres, l'égérie d'Anatole France
11 L.A.S.,[1884 ?-1895 and n.d., to essayist Jean Bourdeau]; 43 pages in-8 or in-12, most by its number or heading Domne de Caillavet. She remembers her by laughing at herself: "I hide my failures behind my pedantry, which is perhaps abominable. However, I control myself by thinking that I have corrupted myself in your society and in that of some kind dreamers of your species" (July 13[1884?])... On Elme Caro: "Nearly half a century of philosophy had not withered its illusions" (19 July[1887])... She does not share her curiosity about "all human samples": "I am full of preferences, aesthetics and narrowness" (October 10[1887])... Ironic comment on Boulanger's conviction in absentia: "I believed in him because he was mysterious, incomprehensible and absurd, and because he did not bring anything, he gave everything hope. It responded to the vague actions, uncertain laughter, and ill-defined aspirations of the crowd. But you see, we are no longer a poetic people, that's why the legend falls flat, ends miserably" (1st September[1889])... Invitation to a performance by amateurs of his son's bluetta (Monday[1890])... Appreciation of its masterful La Rochefoucauld (August 5[1895])... Invitations, thanks, etc. We also find the names of Brunetière, Daudet, Du Bled, France, Loison, Montesquiou... Etc. An L.A.S. of her daughter, Henriette Bourdeau Petit, is attached to Simone André-Maurois, proposing this correspondence (1963).
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