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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).

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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).
L.A.S. "Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly", Valognes Friday [20] October 1882, to publisher Édouard ROUVEYRE| 2 pages in-8 in red ink, to his motto Never more.
"I have received your proofs of Memoranda up to page 36. I am not sending you the corrections. I will give them to you in 10 days. [...] I have corrected Les Ridicules du Temps, which I will also send to you. You saw in the GIL BLAS that I'm continuing them. It will be as up-to-date as possible. A considerable edition is necessary precisely because of this. They will work out the conditions together when he comes to Paris. "I have sent you two people to judge the Memoranda vignette. They are two people of great taste and influence on me.
Listen to them, especially the lady. She finds your vignette charming,
BUT too, too Parisian. She'd like something simpler, - and maybe she's right. Think about it. But they have to wait for Paul Bourget's introduction...