Maurice SAND (1823-1889). L.A.S., Passy June 2, 1880, to Guy de Maupassant; 3 pages in-8. He has just read Boule de Suif, in the Soirées de Médan: "it is excessively good from one end to the other, it is sustained, it is true, and it is of a charming style. For me it is superior to all the other short stories. Although Zola comes first, you are superior to him. "He is anxious to read something else by him. "Where are you? What are you doing?" He addresses the letter to Mme Commanville, "the niece of our poor and dear friend Flaubert whom you loved as I do. I don't know if you are his pupil, as they say in the building; but you are a writer and you must write"... And he adds: "Ah! the bourgeois of Rouen or elsewhere, how it is! There you are!"