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SAND George (1804-1876)
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SAND George (1804-1876)
L.A.S. "G. Sand", Nohant February 13, 1869, to the composer Alexandre
BAZILLE| 4 pages in-8 to his number (small tear in the upper margin
without touching the text).
About a maid.
"My dear child, you have gone to a lot of trouble to get us a good housekeeper [...] But she does not fulfill our goal and it is nobody's fault, not even hers, I think, for she is a very sweet girl and without moral defect as far as I know. But she is not endowed with the skills necessary for a well-kept household and for regular and expected service. She is not lively, she is absent-minded, she does not like, I think, such duties, or she does not have the strength for them, or she does not like to bother with them, and for the price we give her, we would have two maids in the country who would do neither better nor worse. We wanted to give her time to turn around, to try and get used to it, and time did not bring any progress. ... We will give her all the time she needs to find a good place for herself, and if you find a good place for her on your side, do something about it. We shall have only excellent testimonies to give of her character, her delicacy and her work as a maid proper. The tidying up, the table service, the sweeping and the feather duster are not her business, she is a lady. If she wasn't in your house, she has become one, and she can very well find her job on that footing in a rich house. We don't have that job at home, where you have to be a bit of a duster...
And then Sand asks, "And what do you do? Where are your work and your hopes in this time of musical barbarism we live in?"... She adds, about her daughter-in-law Lina and the maid: "Lina goes to bed at 11 am and gets up at 6. Jeanne is free to go to bed at 9 and gets up at 8. [...] Lina is very good, but she gets too tired, and we don't want"....
Correspondence, XXI, n° 14135.
L.A.S. "G. Sand", Nohant February 13, 1869, to the composer Alexandre
BAZILLE| 4 pages in-8 to his number (small tear in the upper margin
without touching the text).
About a maid.
"My dear child, you have gone to a lot of trouble to get us a good housekeeper [...] But she does not fulfill our goal and it is nobody's fault, not even hers, I think, for she is a very sweet girl and without moral defect as far as I know. But she is not endowed with the skills necessary for a well-kept household and for regular and expected service. She is not lively, she is absent-minded, she does not like, I think, such duties, or she does not have the strength for them, or she does not like to bother with them, and for the price we give her, we would have two maids in the country who would do neither better nor worse. We wanted to give her time to turn around, to try and get used to it, and time did not bring any progress. ... We will give her all the time she needs to find a good place for herself, and if you find a good place for her on your side, do something about it. We shall have only excellent testimonies to give of her character, her delicacy and her work as a maid proper. The tidying up, the table service, the sweeping and the feather duster are not her business, she is a lady. If she wasn't in your house, she has become one, and she can very well find her job on that footing in a rich house. We don't have that job at home, where you have to be a bit of a duster...
And then Sand asks, "And what do you do? Where are your work and your hopes in this time of musical barbarism we live in?"... She adds, about her daughter-in-law Lina and the maid: "Lina goes to bed at 11 am and gets up at 6. Jeanne is free to go to bed at 9 and gets up at 8. [...] Lina is very good, but she gets too tired, and we don't want"....
Correspondence, XXI, n° 14135.