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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821 - 1880) 2 L.A.S. « Gve Flaubert », [Paris février 1

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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821 - 1880) 2 L.A.S. "Gve Flaubert", [Paris February 1870, to his friend
Jeanne de TOURBEY]| 1 page in8 each on blue paper.
4 o'clock [after February 12]. "Impossible, my beautiful &| dear friend!
I have a complete loss of voice, a dreadful flu - with fever. I went to too much trouble for the performance at the Odéon [in aid of the monument to Louis Bouilhet, February 12].
I've done too many errands! I'm exhausted"...
Thursday 3 a.m. [February 17]. He is ill and thanks her for her concern, but he doesn't need anything: "Forget would be useless to me, and sweets wouldn't do me any good". He would like to see her, but cannot "because I look hideous with my plaster under my eye. This will force me to miss the wedding &| good Troubat's dinner.
My flu is going - &| I'm recovering a little from my extreme lassitude". He'll come to see her as soon as he can show his face. "Until then, a thousand tendernesses, my dear beautiful friend, all yours body &| soul"...