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You must not be a Norman, you must come and see us for several days, you will make us happy; and it will restore the blood in my veins and the joy in my heart. Love your old troubadour always and talk to him of Paris; a few words when you have the time. Outline a scene for Nohant with four or five characters, we shall enjoy it. We embrace you and summon you. G. Sand
Her son's marriage to Mdlle. Calamatta, spoken of by Madame Sand as a heart's desire of hers at length fulfilled, took place in 1862, not many months after his return from half a year of travel in Africa and America, in the company of Prince Napoleon. The event proved a fresh source of the purest happiness to her, and was not to separate her from her son. The young people settled at Nohant, which remained her head-quarters. There a few years later we find her residing almost exclusively, except when called by matters of business to her pied-
Have you read the Antichrist? I find that indeed a beautiful book, aside from some faults of taste, some modern expressions applied to ancient things. Renan seems to me on the whole to have progressed. I passed all one evening recently with him and I thought him adorable. CCLXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 3d October, 1873
M. Plauchut, another literary friend and a visitor at Nohant during this last decade of her lifetime, gives a picture of the order of her day; it is simplicity itself. Nine o'clock, in summer and in winter alike, was her hour of waking. Letters and newspapers would then occupy her until noon, when she came down to join the family déjeûner.
These pieces would be carefully rehearsed on the little stage in the house at Nohant, often with the aid of leading professional actors; and there, at least, the success was unqualified. Her ingenious novel Les Beaux Messieurs Bois Doré, dramatized with the aid of Paul Meurice and acted in 1862, was a triumph for Madame Sand and her friend Bocage.
But why are we in this world if it is not to learn patience. Your obstinate troubadour who loves you. G. Sand CCLI. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday, March 12, 1873 Dear master, If I am not at your house, it is the fault of the big Tourgueneff. I was getting ready to go to Nohant, when he said to me: "Wait, I'll go with you the first of April." That is two weeks off.
He declared that his patient showed no longer any symptoms of pulmonary affection, but was suffering merely from a slight chronic laryngeal affection which, although he did not expect to be able to cure it, need not cause any serious alarm. On returning to Nohant, George Sand had her mind much exercised by the question how to teach her children.
He thinks Prussia was too insolent and wants to "avenge himself." Did you see that a gentleman has proposed in the Chamber the pillage of the duchy of Baden! Ah! why can't I live among the Bedouins! CLXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croisset Nohant, 26 July, 1870 I think this war is infamous; that authorized Marseillaise, a sacrilege.
"So the peasants," she writes, "were accustomed not to put themselves to any inconvenience; and when came the Revolution they were already so well relieved virtually from feudal bonds that they took revenge on nobody." A new seigneur of Nohant, coming to take possession, and thinking to levy his utmost dues, in cash and in kind, found his rustic tenants turn a deaf ear to his summons.
That gentle fellow's life was very beautiful, and I mourned him. I enter today upon my fifty-second year, and I insist on embracing you today: I do it affectionately, since you love me so well. CCXLVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 8 January, 1873 Yes, yes, my old friend, you must come to see me.
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