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GONCOURT Edmond de (1822-1896)
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GONCOURT Edmond de (1822-1896)
Autograph manuscript, Journal, 1872-1877| 218 leaves in-4 (27,2 x 21,7 cm), in 6 volumes, bound in mustard morocco, double gilt fillet framing the plates stamped with the Hugo EGO HUGO motto, inner gilt border, gilt edges (Lortic).
Manuscript of six years of the famous Journal of the Goncourt brothers.
This manuscript, carefully copied by Edmond, for the publication of volume V of the Journal des Goncourt. Memoirs of the literary life at Charpentier in 1891, preceded by a serial publication in L'Écho de Paris from November 30, 1890 to January 16, 1891. The autograph manuscript is carefully copied in black or violet ink on the front of sheets of ivory or buff paper, leaving a large margin on the left. There are cross-outs and corrections, and several passages have been crossed out. The leaves were cut into small strips numbered in blue pencil for the composition of the text at the newspaper's printing house, then carefully reassembled (some strips are missing). Each bound volume corresponds to a year.
I. 1872. Pg. 1-45 (with a moving spout added to fol. 44: "End of October. With the years, the emptiness left to me by the death of my brother, becomes greater. Nothing pushes back in me the tastes which attached me to life. Literature no longer speaks to me. I have a distance for the men, for the society. At times, I am haunted by the temptation to sell my collections, to flee from Paris, to buy in some corner of France, favorable to plants and trees, a large area of land, where I would live all alone, as a fierce gardener").
II. Year 1873. Pag. 47 to 65 (of which one f. 48 bis).
III. Year 1874. Pag. 67 to 107.
IV. Year 1875. Pag. 109 to 162.
V. Year 1876. Pag. 1-2 to 36
VI. 1877. Pag. 1 to 24. Marginal addition, dated September 1, on Gustave Doré and the burial of Thiers.
The manuscript opens with the account, on January 2, 1872, of the "Dîner des Spartiates", and the remarks of general Schmitz. Further on, there is mention of Flaubert, Théophile and Judith Gautier, Princess Mathilde, Ziem, Tourguéniev, Zola, Victor Hugo, etc.
The year 1873 begins, on January 22, with a dinner at Thiers'. Then there is talk of Flaubert, Sardou, Alphonse Daudet, Gavarni, Rops, etc. 1874 opens with this melancholic note (January 1st): "I throw into the fire the almanac of the past year, and with my feet on the andirons, I see blackening in the fluttering of small tongues of fire, all this long series of grey days, deprived of happiness, of dreams of ambition, of days amused by little silly things". Then there is talk of Flaubert, Dumas fils, Balzac, Labiche, Degas, the premiere of Flaubert's Candidate, Daudet, Zola, Princess Mathilde, etc.
1875 begins (January 8) with a long note after an illness: "For two or three days, I have begun to live again, and my personality is slowly returning to the vague and fluid and empty being that great illnesses do. I have been very ill. I almost died. By dint of walking, last month, a cold in the mud and the thaw of Paris, one fine morning I could not get up. For three days, I remained with a terrible fever and a beating brain. On Christmas Day, I had to [go] in search of a doctor, indicated by the concierge of the villa. The doctor told me that I had a fluxion of the chest, and put a bladder as big as a kite on my back. Eleven days I lived without closing my eyes, always moving and always talking, with the awareness that I was raving, but I couldn't help it. This delirium was a kind of mad race in all the stores of trinkets of Paris, where I bought everything, everything, everything, and took it away myself. There was also in my troubled mind a distortion of my room, which had become larger and moved down from the first to the first floor. I told myself that it was impossible, and yet I saw it as such. One day, I was inwardly very agitated, it seemed to me that the Japanese sword, which is always on my chimney, was not there any more: I imagined that one feared an attack of madness on my part, that one was afraid of me. In this delirium, always a little conscious, the man of letters wanted to analyze himself, to write himself. Unfortunately the notes, which I found on a notebook, are completely illegible"... Then there is talk of Flaubert, Tourguéniev, Zola, Desboutin, Daudet, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Cernuschi, Gambetta, Barye, etc. A brief note opens 1876, on January 1: "I am now entering the coming year with terror. I am afraid of all the bad things it has in store for my peace, my fortune, my health". Then he talks about Daudet, Fromentin, Morny, Dumas fils, Cernuschi, Tourguéniev, Hugo, Renan, Flaubert, Huysmans, etc.
At the death of Jules de Goncourt in 1870, Edmond continued this work alone.
Autograph manuscript, Journal, 1872-1877| 218 leaves in-4 (27,2 x 21,7 cm), in 6 volumes, bound in mustard morocco, double gilt fillet framing the plates stamped with the Hugo EGO HUGO motto, inner gilt border, gilt edges (Lortic).
Manuscript of six years of the famous Journal of the Goncourt brothers.
This manuscript, carefully copied by Edmond, for the publication of volume V of the Journal des Goncourt. Memoirs of the literary life at Charpentier in 1891, preceded by a serial publication in L'Écho de Paris from November 30, 1890 to January 16, 1891. The autograph manuscript is carefully copied in black or violet ink on the front of sheets of ivory or buff paper, leaving a large margin on the left. There are cross-outs and corrections, and several passages have been crossed out. The leaves were cut into small strips numbered in blue pencil for the composition of the text at the newspaper's printing house, then carefully reassembled (some strips are missing). Each bound volume corresponds to a year.
I. 1872. Pg. 1-45 (with a moving spout added to fol. 44: "End of October. With the years, the emptiness left to me by the death of my brother, becomes greater. Nothing pushes back in me the tastes which attached me to life. Literature no longer speaks to me. I have a distance for the men, for the society. At times, I am haunted by the temptation to sell my collections, to flee from Paris, to buy in some corner of France, favorable to plants and trees, a large area of land, where I would live all alone, as a fierce gardener").
II. Year 1873. Pag. 47 to 65 (of which one f. 48 bis).
III. Year 1874. Pag. 67 to 107.
IV. Year 1875. Pag. 109 to 162.
V. Year 1876. Pag. 1-2 to 36
VI. 1877. Pag. 1 to 24. Marginal addition, dated September 1, on Gustave Doré and the burial of Thiers.
The manuscript opens with the account, on January 2, 1872, of the "Dîner des Spartiates", and the remarks of general Schmitz. Further on, there is mention of Flaubert, Théophile and Judith Gautier, Princess Mathilde, Ziem, Tourguéniev, Zola, Victor Hugo, etc.
The year 1873 begins, on January 22, with a dinner at Thiers'. Then there is talk of Flaubert, Sardou, Alphonse Daudet, Gavarni, Rops, etc. 1874 opens with this melancholic note (January 1st): "I throw into the fire the almanac of the past year, and with my feet on the andirons, I see blackening in the fluttering of small tongues of fire, all this long series of grey days, deprived of happiness, of dreams of ambition, of days amused by little silly things". Then there is talk of Flaubert, Dumas fils, Balzac, Labiche, Degas, the premiere of Flaubert's Candidate, Daudet, Zola, Princess Mathilde, etc.
1875 begins (January 8) with a long note after an illness: "For two or three days, I have begun to live again, and my personality is slowly returning to the vague and fluid and empty being that great illnesses do. I have been very ill. I almost died. By dint of walking, last month, a cold in the mud and the thaw of Paris, one fine morning I could not get up. For three days, I remained with a terrible fever and a beating brain. On Christmas Day, I had to [go] in search of a doctor, indicated by the concierge of the villa. The doctor told me that I had a fluxion of the chest, and put a bladder as big as a kite on my back. Eleven days I lived without closing my eyes, always moving and always talking, with the awareness that I was raving, but I couldn't help it. This delirium was a kind of mad race in all the stores of trinkets of Paris, where I bought everything, everything, everything, and took it away myself. There was also in my troubled mind a distortion of my room, which had become larger and moved down from the first to the first floor. I told myself that it was impossible, and yet I saw it as such. One day, I was inwardly very agitated, it seemed to me that the Japanese sword, which is always on my chimney, was not there any more: I imagined that one feared an attack of madness on my part, that one was afraid of me. In this delirium, always a little conscious, the man of letters wanted to analyze himself, to write himself. Unfortunately the notes, which I found on a notebook, are completely illegible"... Then there is talk of Flaubert, Tourguéniev, Zola, Desboutin, Daudet, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Cernuschi, Gambetta, Barye, etc. A brief note opens 1876, on January 1: "I am now entering the coming year with terror. I am afraid of all the bad things it has in store for my peace, my fortune, my health". Then he talks about Daudet, Fromentin, Morny, Dumas fils, Cernuschi, Tourguéniev, Hugo, Renan, Flaubert, Huysmans, etc.
At the death of Jules de Goncourt in 1870, Edmond continued this work alone.