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NON VENU 41976 FLAUBERT Gustave (1821-1880) Lettre autographe signée à Ern

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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821-1880)
L.A.S. "Gve Flaubert", Friday [30 March ? 1860, to Ernest FEYDEAU]| 2 pages in-8.
On his work for Salammbô.
"I am exhausted. For two days I have been getting up at 8 o'clock yesterday to go to the Cabinet des médailles, this morning, to the Jardin des Plantes. & I go back tomorrow. Do with this Paul d'IVOI what you like. But it seems to me that you or I (you rather) owe him a thank you because finally he did what he said he would do? - A rare thing.
&leave me alone with the stories caused by your libertarianism.
All I have to do for my book is turn my heart. I am exhausted. What I write is despicable. I have just, after the Garden of the
Plants, given myself over to Dioscorides and the Mischna. Every day I am disturbed and in spite of all my efforts I do not work. And in spite of my desire I do not have fun. I have to move my camp back to my cabin. .... He will go to dinner at the President's house on Sunday.