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NERVAL Gérard de (1808-1855).
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NERVAL Gérard de (1808-1855).
autograph MANUSCRIT, Le Dix-huitième Siècle, [1845]| 1 page and a half small in-4 (edges slightly frayed).
Draft of the preamble to Arsène HOUSSAYE's book review
HOUSSAYE, Galerie de Portraits. Le Dix-huitième siècle..., article published in Le Constitutionnel, January 28, 1845.
"The eighteenth century is not yet over!" wrote Joseph de Maistre at the time of the Empire, and history has proved him right. For fifteen years, we have witnessed the last struggles animated by his spirit and his memories, and our feet are still slipping on the new ground he ceded us. We have barely reached the moment when we can speak of this great era with justice and impartiality [...] What had this society, which had lived in peace for so many years, done to end up in such fury? Why did all these chosen minds, all these delicate intellects who had spent their lives in the salons of the great, and in the royal residences, why did these poets, artists, philosophers and novelists suddenly turn against a once benevolent aristocracy, against an often hospitable royalty, and provoke the lower classes to noisy saturnalia?"...
The manuscript contains erasures and corrections. The article was reprinted in the posthumous collection Le Rêve et la Vie (1855, pp. 291- 292), with variants.
OEuvres complètes (Pléiade, 1989), t. I, p. 897 and notes p.1832.
PROVENANCE: former collections of Jules MARSAN (December 3, 1976, no. 15)| then Daniel SICKLES (XX, no. 9059).
autograph MANUSCRIT, Le Dix-huitième Siècle, [1845]| 1 page and a half small in-4 (edges slightly frayed).
Draft of the preamble to Arsène HOUSSAYE's book review
HOUSSAYE, Galerie de Portraits. Le Dix-huitième siècle..., article published in Le Constitutionnel, January 28, 1845.
"The eighteenth century is not yet over!" wrote Joseph de Maistre at the time of the Empire, and history has proved him right. For fifteen years, we have witnessed the last struggles animated by his spirit and his memories, and our feet are still slipping on the new ground he ceded us. We have barely reached the moment when we can speak of this great era with justice and impartiality [...] What had this society, which had lived in peace for so many years, done to end up in such fury? Why did all these chosen minds, all these delicate intellects who had spent their lives in the salons of the great, and in the royal residences, why did these poets, artists, philosophers and novelists suddenly turn against a once benevolent aristocracy, against an often hospitable royalty, and provoke the lower classes to noisy saturnalia?"...
The manuscript contains erasures and corrections. The article was reprinted in the posthumous collection Le Rêve et la Vie (1855, pp. 291- 292), with variants.
OEuvres complètes (Pléiade, 1989), t. I, p. 897 and notes p.1832.
PROVENANCE: former collections of Jules MARSAN (December 3, 1976, no. 15)| then Daniel SICKLES (XX, no. 9059).