Laure, duchesse d'ABRANTÈS.

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Laure, duchesse d'ABRANTÈS.
2 L. A, including one signed "A's Dsse?" [circa 1832], to its publisher Hippolyte Fournier, 4 pages in-8° each. Strong reaction to the request to reduce a short story: "It is impossible, you see - look at Balzac who excels in his short stories - see Le comte Chabert - L'Auberge rouge - a thousand others - all are longer than mine [...] One cannot lead a character one only does drugs and then one loses one's literary reputation. I have excellent guides in my friends and all of them have recommended me not to go this way unless I suffer in my future"... - I suffer from "a violent nervous pain at the estomach which I am prone to and whose attacks come back to me as soon as I write longtem", but "don't worry, you'll get your copy later". She warns that her chargé d'affaires will go and see him: "I only want good and sweet relations"...
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