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VIGNY Alfred de (1797 - 1863)
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VIGNY Alfred de (1797 - 1863)
L.A.S. "Alfred de Vigny", to Maine-Giraud October 25, 1849, to Victor HUGO| 3 pages in-8.
Beautiful letter to Hugo, after being elected president of the Académie française.
"How could I think, my dear Victor, that this election would have been done without you? Your hand threw my name into the ballot box and I recognize you in spite of your silence. For the eighteen months that I have been living in this land, nothing had made me foresee this return of the Académie Française, in my absence, to my
French Academy, in my absence, towards my name so long forgotten in my presence. When I indirectly received the news, I was troubled by the greatest worries not only for the health but for the life of Madame de Vigny, whose chest, attacked a year ago, restored by a long stay in this beautiful country without winters, had just received a new and deep blow. Not being able to take her nor to leave her, I feared at first that I would not be able to assure the presidency of the Academy. But now that I am completely reassured by the doctors who surround me too often, I am certain that I will sit down very soon in the new chair that is reserved for me. If the great struggles of the Legislative Assembly do not prevent you from sitting at the Institute, have the goodness, dear friend, to repeat to the Academy what I am writing to you, and to add, for those of my colleagues whose good feelings for me you know, that I am all the more touched by their perseverance that I know how many times up to now they have been resisted".
And he adds, for his friend: "Fill at the same time the stage and the tribune, and count on this hand which shook yours at eighteen years and on this heart that others find too wild but that you will always find full of dear memories and constant friendship"...
L.A.S. "Alfred de Vigny", to Maine-Giraud October 25, 1849, to Victor HUGO| 3 pages in-8.
Beautiful letter to Hugo, after being elected president of the Académie française.
"How could I think, my dear Victor, that this election would have been done without you? Your hand threw my name into the ballot box and I recognize you in spite of your silence. For the eighteen months that I have been living in this land, nothing had made me foresee this return of the Académie Française, in my absence, to my
French Academy, in my absence, towards my name so long forgotten in my presence. When I indirectly received the news, I was troubled by the greatest worries not only for the health but for the life of Madame de Vigny, whose chest, attacked a year ago, restored by a long stay in this beautiful country without winters, had just received a new and deep blow. Not being able to take her nor to leave her, I feared at first that I would not be able to assure the presidency of the Academy. But now that I am completely reassured by the doctors who surround me too often, I am certain that I will sit down very soon in the new chair that is reserved for me. If the great struggles of the Legislative Assembly do not prevent you from sitting at the Institute, have the goodness, dear friend, to repeat to the Academy what I am writing to you, and to add, for those of my colleagues whose good feelings for me you know, that I am all the more touched by their perseverance that I know how many times up to now they have been resisted".
And he adds, for his friend: "Fill at the same time the stage and the tribune, and count on this hand which shook yours at eighteen years and on this heart that others find too wild but that you will always find full of dear memories and constant friendship"...