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SAND George (1804-1876)
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SAND George (1804-1876)
L.A.S. "G. Sand", Nohant January 21, 1862, to Elme CARO| 4 pages and a half in-8 to his number.
Long letter in favor of his niece Léontine Simonnet and her grandnephews.
She asks for "help and protection for my niece. Here I am being nepotistic, you see? but I believe my niece has many rights.
Her husband killed himself for the empire. To the letter. In '48 and '49 he took so much fire to destroy the republic that he died of exhaustion and unrest. The empire was his passion, his ideal. It wasn't mine.
He had a falling out with me. God grant him peace! But he left a lovely widow who is my brother's daughter and three children whom I love dearly. The little woman had enormous courage to raise these three sons, one of whom is now a big boy with a heart of gold". She has "rights to the protection of the government, its scarce resources, its forced spending, and finally the state of embarrassment and peril in which she finds herself".
But G. Sand wants to know if her plea has any chance of succeeding.
"I know that the Minister of Education likes to do good, and perhaps he knows, on his side, that some dissenters in opinion can be very honest people and very grateful hearts.
Moreover, I plead here for the children of a man who could not have been reproached in the same way I was, and whether for his sake or because of your kind support, I will nonetheless, very sincerely and effortlessly, take upon myself a large part of the debt of gratitude that the minister will owe us"....
New letters found, n° 220.
L.A.S. "G. Sand", Nohant January 21, 1862, to Elme CARO| 4 pages and a half in-8 to his number.
Long letter in favor of his niece Léontine Simonnet and her grandnephews.
She asks for "help and protection for my niece. Here I am being nepotistic, you see? but I believe my niece has many rights.
Her husband killed himself for the empire. To the letter. In '48 and '49 he took so much fire to destroy the republic that he died of exhaustion and unrest. The empire was his passion, his ideal. It wasn't mine.
He had a falling out with me. God grant him peace! But he left a lovely widow who is my brother's daughter and three children whom I love dearly. The little woman had enormous courage to raise these three sons, one of whom is now a big boy with a heart of gold". She has "rights to the protection of the government, its scarce resources, its forced spending, and finally the state of embarrassment and peril in which she finds herself".
But G. Sand wants to know if her plea has any chance of succeeding.
"I know that the Minister of Education likes to do good, and perhaps he knows, on his side, that some dissenters in opinion can be very honest people and very grateful hearts.
Moreover, I plead here for the children of a man who could not have been reproached in the same way I was, and whether for his sake or because of your kind support, I will nonetheless, very sincerely and effortlessly, take upon myself a large part of the debt of gratitude that the minister will owe us"....
New letters found, n° 220.