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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)
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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)
L.A.S. "Charles Baudelaire", April 9, 1864, in "Mademoiselle" [Judith GAUTIER]| 2 pages and a half in-8.
Nice letter to Judith Gautier after her first article on the translation of Eureka by Edgar Poe.
The Moniteur universel of March 29, 1864 published the first article by Judith Gautier (daughter of Théophile Gautier), signed with the pseudonym "Judith
Walter", devoted to Baudelaire's translation of Eureka by Edgar Poe]. "I recently found at a friend's home your article, in the March 29th edition of the
Moniteur, whose proofs your father had sent me some time before. He no doubt told you of the astonishment I felt when I read them. If I did not write to you immediately to thank you, it was only out of shyness. A man, not very shy by nature, may be uncomfortable in front of a beautiful young girl, even when he knew her as a child, - especially when he receives a service from her, - and he may be afraid either of being too respectful and too cold, or of thanking her with too much warmth.
My first impression, as I told you, was one of astonishment, -
always a pleasant one, by the way. Then, when I was no longer allowed to doubt, I had a feeling that was difficult to express, composed half of pleasure at having been so well understood, half of joy at seeing that one of my oldest and dearest friends had a daughter who was truly worthy of him.
In your analysis, so correct, of Eureka, you have done what at your age I might not have been able to do, and what a crowd of very mature men, claiming to be literate, are incapable of doing. Finally, you have proved to me what I would gladly have thought impossible, namely that a young girl can find serious amusements in books, quite different from those, so silly and vulgar, which fill the lives of all women.
If I were not still afraid of offending you by slandering your sex, I would tell you that you have forced me to doubt myself about the ugly opinions I have formed about women in general.
L.A.S. "Charles Baudelaire", April 9, 1864, in "Mademoiselle" [Judith GAUTIER]| 2 pages and a half in-8.
Nice letter to Judith Gautier after her first article on the translation of Eureka by Edgar Poe.
The Moniteur universel of March 29, 1864 published the first article by Judith Gautier (daughter of Théophile Gautier), signed with the pseudonym "Judith
Walter", devoted to Baudelaire's translation of Eureka by Edgar Poe]. "I recently found at a friend's home your article, in the March 29th edition of the
Moniteur, whose proofs your father had sent me some time before. He no doubt told you of the astonishment I felt when I read them. If I did not write to you immediately to thank you, it was only out of shyness. A man, not very shy by nature, may be uncomfortable in front of a beautiful young girl, even when he knew her as a child, - especially when he receives a service from her, - and he may be afraid either of being too respectful and too cold, or of thanking her with too much warmth.
My first impression, as I told you, was one of astonishment, -
always a pleasant one, by the way. Then, when I was no longer allowed to doubt, I had a feeling that was difficult to express, composed half of pleasure at having been so well understood, half of joy at seeing that one of my oldest and dearest friends had a daughter who was truly worthy of him.
In your analysis, so correct, of Eureka, you have done what at your age I might not have been able to do, and what a crowd of very mature men, claiming to be literate, are incapable of doing. Finally, you have proved to me what I would gladly have thought impossible, namely that a young girl can find serious amusements in books, quite different from those, so silly and vulgar, which fill the lives of all women.
If I were not still afraid of offending you by slandering your sex, I would tell you that you have forced me to doubt myself about the ugly opinions I have formed about women in general.