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82 1 Smyrne: 'Smyrna, important seaport in Asiatic Turkey, on the Aegean Sea, famous for its rugs and silks lampes-modérateur more precisely lampes
Daudet's love for his native land was intense. Its images were ever present to him; its poetry haunted him throughout his life. He urged young men ambitious of literary laurels to remain in their native provinces, to draw their inspiration from the soil, confident that something great and beautiful would result. Why did he not take for himself the counsel he so incessantly offered to others?
77 15 Il suffit d'un képi: cf. note to 62 12. 77 17 la toque de Gessler: 'Gessler's cap. Gessler is the Austrian governor of Swltzerland who figures in the story of William Tell. The Swiss were forced to salute his cap, which was placed on a pole. 77 18 allait son train: 'went on its way. Train = 'gait.
À propos, tu sauras que mon révérend admirateur a daigné écrire dans mon album. Ça finit ainsi: Calm and holy, Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, Feeding its flames.
Voir Hugh Miller. Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood. I, chap. IX. Chambers. I, chap. History of Scotland, tom.
Il faut lire, pour la partie physique, l'admirable livre de Archibald Geikie: The Scenery of Scotland, viewed in Connection with its physical Geology, où les qualités de l'écrivain égalent celles du savant; pour la partie littéraire et poétique, le très beau livre de John Veitch: The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border, their main features and relations, où il y a des pages d'un véritable amant et connaisseur de la nature.
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