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RACHILDE Marguerite Eymery, dite (1860-1953)
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Rachilde", Paris December 12, 1930| 3 pages and a half in-8, headed Mercure de France.
Answer to an inquiry on education.
Education is as necessary to the human animal, as the bit to the horse. Without the severe education she received, she does not know what she would have become. "The slow but sure softening of a good education gives you, later on, a self-control that can replace even courage, admitting that courage is lacking in front of certain torture. I learned to smile in spite of the physical or moral injury"... It is not a question of being hypocritical: "I have remained of whole character and I have not felt the need to be vindictive or simply bad-tempered, which is always the sign of a weakness of temperament. I gladly accept criticism, reproaches, and I don't have at all the monomania of grandeur, all the lack of measure which seems to have become the prerogative of the new generations"... She is indifferent to the places in the world, she always forgives... "Nowadays, I believe that all social classes are vitiated by, not a bad education, but the forgetfulness of the elegant gesture. We have lost the taste for beauty in dress. [...]
Neither bit nor bridle! It is the complete nudism, only there are very few well-made people and even less beautiful characters. If parents and teachers don't see to it, it will be the end of our legendary French courtesy"... Quoting a word of Alphonse Karr on the rose and the dung, she concludes: "The bad education of a society is the bad smell detecting its decomposition."
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Rachilde", Paris December 12, 1930| 3 pages and a half in-8, headed Mercure de France.
Answer to an inquiry on education.
Education is as necessary to the human animal, as the bit to the horse. Without the severe education she received, she does not know what she would have become. "The slow but sure softening of a good education gives you, later on, a self-control that can replace even courage, admitting that courage is lacking in front of certain torture. I learned to smile in spite of the physical or moral injury"... It is not a question of being hypocritical: "I have remained of whole character and I have not felt the need to be vindictive or simply bad-tempered, which is always the sign of a weakness of temperament. I gladly accept criticism, reproaches, and I don't have at all the monomania of grandeur, all the lack of measure which seems to have become the prerogative of the new generations"... She is indifferent to the places in the world, she always forgives... "Nowadays, I believe that all social classes are vitiated by, not a bad education, but the forgetfulness of the elegant gesture. We have lost the taste for beauty in dress. [...]
Neither bit nor bridle! It is the complete nudism, only there are very few well-made people and even less beautiful characters. If parents and teachers don't see to it, it will be the end of our legendary French courtesy"... Quoting a word of Alphonse Karr on the rose and the dung, she concludes: "The bad education of a society is the bad smell detecting its decomposition."