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BLOY Léon (1846-1917)
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BLOY Léon (1846 - 1917)
autograph manuscript signed "Léon Bloy", Les Dernières
Colonnes de l'Église, [1903]| 75 small leaves in-4 (about 21.5 x 17 cm) mounted on tabs in a small volume in-4 | bound in black morocco, gilt decoration, large cross in reserve drawn with a small cruciform iron, alternating this small iron with a special square iron with geometrical decoration, spine decorated with the same irons, inner frame stamped at the corners with a cross surrounded by small circles, lining and endpapers of old gold silk, marbled paper counterguards, case (René Kieffer).
Complete manuscript of this game of massacre against some established Catholic glories.
This manuscript, written in black ink in Bloy's beautiful handwriting, on the front of the pages, is carefully prepared for the 1903 Mercure de France edition| it presents however some final erasures and corrections. It gathers all the texts of the book. The layout of the title page was prepared by Alfred Vallette. The manuscripts present typographical indications (in pencil by Vallette) and annotations of the printer (in blue pencil).
A L.A.S. from Bloy to his publisher Alfred Vallette, Lagny August 12, 1903 (1 p. in-8), accompanying a copy and writing an addition to the text on Huysmans| he ends: "Au revoir, mon cher Vallette. One does not have fun in my skin".
The manuscript includes, after the mock-up of the title (by Vallette):
- the dedication "to Ignis ardens"... [Pius X, in the prophecy of Malachy] (1 p).
- Foreword of "this book which will be regarded as a pamphlet by all the connoisseurs" (2 versions, 1 p. each).
- François Coppée of the French Academy (5 p.): "The conversion of
Coppée has been the way of Damascus of all the world [...] Must the Church be unhappy &| that the Catholics have deserved everything for this ridiculous old man to be believed something"...
- Ferdinand Brunetière of the French Academy (5 p.) : "One day, more than ten years ago, a powerful burst of slaps passed suddenly on the imponderable cuistre who held the job of critic in the Revue des Deux-
Worlds. By an unheard-of miracle, [...] all who then carried a pen reviled him, exactly as if he had been a writer"...
- J.K. Huysmans of the Académie Goncourt &| his last books (23 p.) : "I will not repeat the terrible word of Barbey d'Aurevilly to whom I had introduced him &| who could never overcome his antipathy. Sixteen or eighteen years ago. Huysmans had just published À Rebours &| I was still alone in sensing the infinitely elliptical curve by which this disciple of Médan was to arrive one day at the Catholicism of trinkets"... And
Bloy concludes: "Let's get it over with. "Catholics have deserved everything". Much has been said about this and it would take another voice than this one, a voice much more than human, to say it again. When this clarion of the abyss speaks, "all deafness will shatter", according to the astonishing expression of
Victor Hugo. In the meantime, the misery of these eunuchs of orthodoxy is so frightening that we must still be grateful to them for welcoming such a man. They rejected Hello, they abhorred Barbey d'Aurevilly, they did not even want to know Verlaine, but they throw themselves at
Huysmans, and we must thank them all the same. It is to sob".
Following, 4 p. of press clippings from the newspaper Le Temps, concerning Huysmans.
- Paul Bourget of the Académie Française (9 p.) : "In the summer of 1877, a little after the fiasco of Jean Richepin's conversion, recounted in one of my first books [Propos d'un Entrepreneur de Démolitions], I happened to dream that the author of L'Étape and Cruelle Énigme, who was, at that time, the author of nothing at all, was ripening silently like a sweet fruit that the Church only had to pick. I was then working in the conversions. Richepin having escaped me, I needed another prey".
To conclude, he places Bourget among the "eunuchs who have castrated themselves because of the heavens".
- Some others (7 p.): Drumont, H. Sienkiewicz, Jules Soury, Fr.
Vincent Maumus "a very probable sou-Judas and an incontestable cretin"...
- The Last Catholic Poet Jehan Rictus (15 p.) : "Catholic poet without knowing it and without anyone having ever known it, except me, but the last, without any doubt"...
- The Beggar prays at the threshold of the Church (2 p.), praying to God to count him "among the poor in small number that you will use frightfully for your glory, when your Face of thunder will be tired to be blown".
- Table (1 p.).
autograph manuscript signed "Léon Bloy", Les Dernières
Colonnes de l'Église, [1903]| 75 small leaves in-4 (about 21.5 x 17 cm) mounted on tabs in a small volume in-4 | bound in black morocco, gilt decoration, large cross in reserve drawn with a small cruciform iron, alternating this small iron with a special square iron with geometrical decoration, spine decorated with the same irons, inner frame stamped at the corners with a cross surrounded by small circles, lining and endpapers of old gold silk, marbled paper counterguards, case (René Kieffer).
Complete manuscript of this game of massacre against some established Catholic glories.
This manuscript, written in black ink in Bloy's beautiful handwriting, on the front of the pages, is carefully prepared for the 1903 Mercure de France edition| it presents however some final erasures and corrections. It gathers all the texts of the book. The layout of the title page was prepared by Alfred Vallette. The manuscripts present typographical indications (in pencil by Vallette) and annotations of the printer (in blue pencil).
A L.A.S. from Bloy to his publisher Alfred Vallette, Lagny August 12, 1903 (1 p. in-8), accompanying a copy and writing an addition to the text on Huysmans| he ends: "Au revoir, mon cher Vallette. One does not have fun in my skin".
The manuscript includes, after the mock-up of the title (by Vallette):
- the dedication "to Ignis ardens"... [Pius X, in the prophecy of Malachy] (1 p).
- Foreword of "this book which will be regarded as a pamphlet by all the connoisseurs" (2 versions, 1 p. each).
- François Coppée of the French Academy (5 p.): "The conversion of
Coppée has been the way of Damascus of all the world [...] Must the Church be unhappy &| that the Catholics have deserved everything for this ridiculous old man to be believed something"...
- Ferdinand Brunetière of the French Academy (5 p.) : "One day, more than ten years ago, a powerful burst of slaps passed suddenly on the imponderable cuistre who held the job of critic in the Revue des Deux-
Worlds. By an unheard-of miracle, [...] all who then carried a pen reviled him, exactly as if he had been a writer"...
- J.K. Huysmans of the Académie Goncourt &| his last books (23 p.) : "I will not repeat the terrible word of Barbey d'Aurevilly to whom I had introduced him &| who could never overcome his antipathy. Sixteen or eighteen years ago. Huysmans had just published À Rebours &| I was still alone in sensing the infinitely elliptical curve by which this disciple of Médan was to arrive one day at the Catholicism of trinkets"... And
Bloy concludes: "Let's get it over with. "Catholics have deserved everything". Much has been said about this and it would take another voice than this one, a voice much more than human, to say it again. When this clarion of the abyss speaks, "all deafness will shatter", according to the astonishing expression of
Victor Hugo. In the meantime, the misery of these eunuchs of orthodoxy is so frightening that we must still be grateful to them for welcoming such a man. They rejected Hello, they abhorred Barbey d'Aurevilly, they did not even want to know Verlaine, but they throw themselves at
Huysmans, and we must thank them all the same. It is to sob".
Following, 4 p. of press clippings from the newspaper Le Temps, concerning Huysmans.
- Paul Bourget of the Académie Française (9 p.) : "In the summer of 1877, a little after the fiasco of Jean Richepin's conversion, recounted in one of my first books [Propos d'un Entrepreneur de Démolitions], I happened to dream that the author of L'Étape and Cruelle Énigme, who was, at that time, the author of nothing at all, was ripening silently like a sweet fruit that the Church only had to pick. I was then working in the conversions. Richepin having escaped me, I needed another prey".
To conclude, he places Bourget among the "eunuchs who have castrated themselves because of the heavens".
- Some others (7 p.): Drumont, H. Sienkiewicz, Jules Soury, Fr.
Vincent Maumus "a very probable sou-Judas and an incontestable cretin"...
- The Last Catholic Poet Jehan Rictus (15 p.) : "Catholic poet without knowing it and without anyone having ever known it, except me, but the last, without any doubt"...
- The Beggar prays at the threshold of the Church (2 p.), praying to God to count him "among the poor in small number that you will use frightfully for your glory, when your Face of thunder will be tired to be blown".
- Table (1 p.).