FLAUBERT Gustave (1821-1880). - Lot 56

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FLAUBERT Gustave (1821-1880). - Lot 56
FLAUBERT Gustave (1821-1880). autograph manuscript, Voltaire [ca. 1840]; 4 pages small in-4. Notes on Voltaire's Correspondence. Flaubert admired VOLTAIRE, and in particular his Correspondence, of which he has noted here about twenty passages taken from volume I (1715 to 1737) of the Kehl edition of the Complete Works. We quote some extracts from it. "Marriage of Louis XV: "He boasted of having given her seven sacraments for the first night, but I don't believe it at all, kings always deceive their people" - parties at court - pension given by the queen to Voltaire. 32. The first letter written from England (1727) - remarkable for its philosophical tone and for an inner sequence of antitheses. There are some in Candide. [...] 134. (in 1735) "Verses are no longer fashionable in Paris, everyone starts to play the geometer and the physicist. One interferes with reasoning. Feeling, imagination and grace are banished. A man who had lived under Louis XIV and who would return to the world would no longer recognize the French; he would believe that the Germans had conquered this country. Fine literature is perishing at a rapid rate". [...] "Joking aside, I am convinced that religion has more effect on the people in the theater when it is put into beautiful verses than in the church where it is shown only in kitchen Latin. The honest people called the good old Lusignan of Capucin when I read the play and the bulk of the world burst into tears at the representation". [...] In this volume towards the beginning of the second third are the letters relating to the English Letters, to his bookseller etc. [...] Towards the end of this volume, the letters of the author of the play are published. [...] Towards the end of the v. the letters are full of details of information of questions on physics, etc. - admiration that gets to him Me Du Chatelet "who reads to him at his bedside the Tusculanes of Cicero in the language of this illustrious chatterbox"... "who loves passionately the rule of Kepler... and who makes more value of a truth than of Sophocles and Euripides".
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