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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821 - 1880)

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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821 - 1880)
L.A.S. "Le vieillard de Cro-magnon", [Croisset] Dimanche [16 December 1877], to his friend Edmond LAPORTE| half page in-8 (stamp of the Laporte collection).
Amusing letter at the time of the writing of Bouvard et Pécuchet.
"I ask immediately for the description of the dining room of a priest! - That of Gd Couronne, for example? Is there a crucifix, a pious image, the bust of the Holy Father? Father? You must know that, you evangelical man"...
He signs: "Your fierce old man The old man of Cro-magnon".
Correspondence (Pléiade), t. V, p. 341.