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Mis à jour: 11 juin 2025
À Mademoiselle * 30, rue Ampère. My dear Alice, I am glad for you if you like Pont-Aven, only... you know I am not an admirer of the celebrated Britain because all the artists that go there bring back studies who all seem to come from the same shop... with the difference of qualities... first, second, third and eleventh... It is love.
I need not tell you that this affair has been the cause of great vexation. If M. de Salvandy should not have yet left Madrid, I shall not despair of your being able to bring it to some adjustment. But there will be violent speeches in the Cortes, both governments will become more deeply pledged, and every day will add to the difficulty.
However right Spain may be in the end, the origin of the quarrel will be tainted.... In recomending to you really and strenuous endeavours the attempt to bring the Spanish government to a more tractable state with respect to this unfortunate dispute, I must leave to you the manner of going to work.
Upon this head, I beg leave to observe that in all probability this Province, when the posts in the upper country shall be evacuated, will lose much of its importance in a commercial light, and that it will be a matter of great doubt whether it would be right to expend much money for the preservation of it, or at least it would never be worth the while to go to war about it, from hence it appears prudent to shun every thing which might bring on a rupture with the bad neighbours which surround us.
Zola met Daudet at this time and has left us an attractive picture of him: "He was in the employ of a successful newspaper, he used to bring in his article, receive his remuneration, and disappear with the nonchalance of a young god, sunk in poetry, far from the petty cares of this world. He was living, I think, outside of the city, in a remote corner with other poets, a band of joyous Bohemians.
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