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CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de (1768-1848).
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CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de (1768-1848).
L.A., Lausanne June 19, 1826, to the Duchesse de DURAS| 3 pages in-4.
Beautiful unpublished letter on his stay in Lausanne, on Les Natchez, and on the evils of old age.
He praises Mme de COTTENS, with whom Rosalie de CONSTANT has an apartment: "She is an excellent person who is at the head of all the requests and help for the Greeks. She has a flock of five little girls whom she takes for walks every day, and after my work and dinner, she shows me, when I can walk, all the valleys of Lausanne, which are charming, except for rheumatism"... He goes on to talk about Les Natchez (written in London, and finally published in his OEuvres complètes): "No, René is certainly not coming back to France| he's staying in
America, where a thousand evils were done to him, and where he ended up being massacred.
But he carries his destiny with him everywhere. There's a letter from him after learning of Amélie's death that's as good as all René. You'll see it all. I'm suffering horribly. I can only walk with the help of a crutch. It's impossible for me to stay here. Our little house in the infirmary is coming to an end. Mde de Ch[ateaubriand] will leave on the 1st of next month, and when she tells me that my apartment is ready, I'll leave, and here I am for life, rue d'Enfer, in hospital.
I no longer wish to live except to bury two or three wretches| I would be angry to leave them behind"... The first issue of his Collected Works is "still delayed| it is to be hoped that it will finally appear, if there is no censorship [...] Try to dine. That's the only good thing about it. Your writing is better. I read Don Quixote at night and I laugh in the midst of my sufferings to cry, because it's at night that I'm on the wheel".
L.A., Lausanne June 19, 1826, to the Duchesse de DURAS| 3 pages in-4.
Beautiful unpublished letter on his stay in Lausanne, on Les Natchez, and on the evils of old age.
He praises Mme de COTTENS, with whom Rosalie de CONSTANT has an apartment: "She is an excellent person who is at the head of all the requests and help for the Greeks. She has a flock of five little girls whom she takes for walks every day, and after my work and dinner, she shows me, when I can walk, all the valleys of Lausanne, which are charming, except for rheumatism"... He goes on to talk about Les Natchez (written in London, and finally published in his OEuvres complètes): "No, René is certainly not coming back to France| he's staying in
America, where a thousand evils were done to him, and where he ended up being massacred.
But he carries his destiny with him everywhere. There's a letter from him after learning of Amélie's death that's as good as all René. You'll see it all. I'm suffering horribly. I can only walk with the help of a crutch. It's impossible for me to stay here. Our little house in the infirmary is coming to an end. Mde de Ch[ateaubriand] will leave on the 1st of next month, and when she tells me that my apartment is ready, I'll leave, and here I am for life, rue d'Enfer, in hospital.
I no longer wish to live except to bury two or three wretches| I would be angry to leave them behind"... The first issue of his Collected Works is "still delayed| it is to be hoped that it will finally appear, if there is no censorship [...] Try to dine. That's the only good thing about it. Your writing is better. I read Don Quixote at night and I laugh in the midst of my sufferings to cry, because it's at night that I'm on the wheel".