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LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869).
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LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869).
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Lamartine", Life of Lord
Chatham (William Pitt)| 63 pages in-4 (27 x 20.5 cm) written on the front only, in autograph folder.
Complete manuscript of this biography of the great English statesman.
This biography was collected in Portraits et Biographies : William
Pitt, lord Chatham, Mme Roland, Charlotte Corday, volume published on November 19, 1865 in Paris, by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1865. The first page bears the heading "Le Civilisateur", the title of the review published by Lamartine from 1852 to 1854 and subtitled "Histoire de l'humanité par les grands hommes", for which this study was thus intended. The manuscript is paginated from 1 to 67 with some inconsistencies (2 ff. 10, and 2 ff. 65| the text runs uninterrupted from p. 16 to p. 18)| on about fifteen pages, Lamartine has pasted pages or fragments of printed text, corresponding to a notice probably cut out from an edition of Michaud's Biographie universelle, and to pages detached from
Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George II by Horace
Walpole (Dentu, 1823).
Lamartine, former deputy, former minister and former candidate for the presidency of the Republic, under the guise of tracing the life of the great British statesman William Pitt (1708-1778), delivers here a vibrant eulogy of the orator. "Of all the literary faculties of man, the one that is most closely related to action is political eloquence| that is why, of all the men of letters, those whom history most often ranks as great men are the orators. One is not a great man, in fact, simply to be a great philosopher, a great poet, a great writer, for these gifts or talents of the intellect, though possessed to an eminent degree by the favourites of nature or art, do not always imply the qualities of soul, of character, of power over events, of public virtue, which constitute the great citizen, the great warrior, the great tribune, the great political adviser of his country. But the political orator confuses his soul with his eloquence, his character with his words, his statesmanlike genius with his speech, his patriotism with his ideas, and often even his blood with his opinions. There is only talent in the writer, there is heroism in the great orator. To write is to write, but to speak is to act, to fight, to govern, sometimes to die.
Let us also quote the conclusion of this Life: "Great words are the mothers of great things. Beauty in speech is the diapason of beauty in action. To degrade eloquence is to degrade the soul of the audience. The orator is the poet of the deliberating people| if the orator is trivial and cynical, you have Clodius Cromwell or Marat asking for heads from barbarians| if the poet is literate and philosophical, you have Chatham Vergniaud or Lanjuinais asking for moderation and virtue from citizens. Do not lower the voice of the tribunes, for that would be to lower patriotism and the virtues of nations."
PROVENANCE Archives LAMARTINE, château de Saint-Point.
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Lamartine", Life of Lord
Chatham (William Pitt)| 63 pages in-4 (27 x 20.5 cm) written on the front only, in autograph folder.
Complete manuscript of this biography of the great English statesman.
This biography was collected in Portraits et Biographies : William
Pitt, lord Chatham, Mme Roland, Charlotte Corday, volume published on November 19, 1865 in Paris, by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1865. The first page bears the heading "Le Civilisateur", the title of the review published by Lamartine from 1852 to 1854 and subtitled "Histoire de l'humanité par les grands hommes", for which this study was thus intended. The manuscript is paginated from 1 to 67 with some inconsistencies (2 ff. 10, and 2 ff. 65| the text runs uninterrupted from p. 16 to p. 18)| on about fifteen pages, Lamartine has pasted pages or fragments of printed text, corresponding to a notice probably cut out from an edition of Michaud's Biographie universelle, and to pages detached from
Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George II by Horace
Walpole (Dentu, 1823).
Lamartine, former deputy, former minister and former candidate for the presidency of the Republic, under the guise of tracing the life of the great British statesman William Pitt (1708-1778), delivers here a vibrant eulogy of the orator. "Of all the literary faculties of man, the one that is most closely related to action is political eloquence| that is why, of all the men of letters, those whom history most often ranks as great men are the orators. One is not a great man, in fact, simply to be a great philosopher, a great poet, a great writer, for these gifts or talents of the intellect, though possessed to an eminent degree by the favourites of nature or art, do not always imply the qualities of soul, of character, of power over events, of public virtue, which constitute the great citizen, the great warrior, the great tribune, the great political adviser of his country. But the political orator confuses his soul with his eloquence, his character with his words, his statesmanlike genius with his speech, his patriotism with his ideas, and often even his blood with his opinions. There is only talent in the writer, there is heroism in the great orator. To write is to write, but to speak is to act, to fight, to govern, sometimes to die.
Let us also quote the conclusion of this Life: "Great words are the mothers of great things. Beauty in speech is the diapason of beauty in action. To degrade eloquence is to degrade the soul of the audience. The orator is the poet of the deliberating people| if the orator is trivial and cynical, you have Clodius Cromwell or Marat asking for heads from barbarians| if the poet is literate and philosophical, you have Chatham Vergniaud or Lanjuinais asking for moderation and virtue from citizens. Do not lower the voice of the tribunes, for that would be to lower patriotism and the virtues of nations."
PROVENANCE Archives LAMARTINE, château de Saint-Point.