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But it is high time to beautify myself, not that I have any pretensions at pleasing and seducing by my physical graces, but I hate myself too much when I look in my mirror. The older one grows, the more care one should take of oneself. I shall see Madame Viardot this evening, I shall go early and we will talk of you. When shall we meet again, now? How far Nohant is from Croisset!
Yours devotedly, Chateau de Nohant, September 20, 1844. Dearest, If I did not write you before, it was because I thought I should see you again this week in Paris. What shall I say? She wrote to me about it since from Strasburg, and asked me to remember her to you and Madame Franchomme. I hope you are all well, and that I shall find you so. Write to me, and love me as I love you. Your old
The imprisonment of Madame Dupin was not long; after some months of detention, she was allowed to rejoin her son at Passy, and the whole family-party speedily removed to Nohant, in the heart of Berry, which henceforth figures as the homestead in the pages of these volumes. But Maurice is soon obliged to adopt a profession.
As a young girl wildly romping with the peasant children at Nohant she discovered a joy in untrammeled rural life which was only to increase with years.
One must wipe out that mistake and think of oneself no more highly than they did in the time of Pericles or of Shakespeare, atrocious epochs in which fine things were done. Tell me that you are lifting your head and that you are thinking of your old troubadour, who cherishes you. CXCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croisset Nohant, 8 September, 1871
The imbecilities of the Republic surpass those of the Empire. Are they playing under all this some abominable comedy? Why such inaction? Ah! how sad I am. I feel that the world is going by. CLXXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croisset. Le Chatre, 14 October, 1870 We are living at Le Chatre. Nohant is ravaged by smallpox with complications, horrible.
I feel the importance now, of getting men of that class to be rather frank with me. For I am going to start studying the Revolution of '48. You have promised me to hunt in your library at Nohant for an article of yours on faience; a novel by father X , a Jesuit, on the Holy Virgin. But what sternness for the father Beuve who is neither Jesuit nor virgin!
What assurance physicians have! what effrontery! what asses for the most part! This book gave me hysterics. So as to retemper myself in something stronger, I reread the great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes. There is a man, that fellow! What a world in which such work were produced! CCLXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, March, 1874
There must be many who, after reading her books, have felt the same desire which in those days of my youth, in 1846, took me to Nohant, the desire to see the country and the places of which the books that so charmed us were full.
Nohant offered pleasanter conditions, a less austere retreat, congenial society, and resources in case of illness. Papet was to him an enlightened and kind physician. Fleury, Duteil, Duvernet, and their families, Planet, and especially Rollinat, were dear to him at first sight. All of them loved him also, and felt disposed to spoil him as I did.
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