Lot n° 183
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: 640EUR
Georges Faillet dit FAGUS (1872-1933). 9 L.A.S., August 1915 - Lot 183
Georges Faillet dit FAGUS (1872-1933). 9 L.A.S., August 1915-March 1916, to Émile Zavie; 25 pages of various sizes, envelopes and addresses.
Beautiful and long letters of the poet at the Front in the 222nd Territorial Infantry Regiment. We can only give here a quick overview.
Le Havre August 9, 1915. "I have little heart to write: the death of my dear Jean-Marc Bernard has upset me"... - August 20. "Since the end of March, we have been wandering around Normandy: Falaise, Conches, Lisieux, Le Hâvre, Montivilliers, Harfleur, Gonfreville, guarding the Boche, watching the coasts, the interior as well, collecting foodstuffs, etc... doing training and mounting guards. However, we are waiting every day to provide another role: we are superbly dressed in azure blue and equipped for war; it cannot be for nothing. So we are being revaccinated. The author "all designated" for the praise of Jean-Marc Bernard is Maurras... - August 28. "My dear Heautontimoroumène, you are the dupe of your "spirit", this spirit that you coat with "scepticism". [...] Petrograde-retrograde: what a lamentable wealth! It is silly as a rhyme to Father Hugo; the event preferred the assonance Petrograde-Riga; (and for me if I go to wash my feet far away, it seems that it will be in the waters of the Rhine or of the Sprée rather than in those of the Neva). It was Petersburg that was ridiculous: as much as ...stadt for example for Novogorode (or Novograde), or at home for Villeneuve-St-Georges. The same goes for "poilu", which we commonly use, as anyone who had served in Africa before the war did. My office mate, dear Molin, who is currently operating in Alsace where he has just earned his second string, did not know any other word to characterize a male biped of full age"... - Dambuc Farm, near Gonfreville l'Orcher, September 4. "For our lost provinces [...] it is unlikely indeed that I will contribute directly to take them back, and you send me absolutely sorry. Fortunately, others are there, and I even count on the "rabiot", firmly, quietly. That's the main thing, isn't it true? However little it is, I will at least have done all I could. In literature too. I know how little it is... but as well, who would dare to expect to find favor with you, after your disdain for our little colleague Barrès?"... - September 20. Long political discussion: "You yourself agree that Maurras alone is logical. [...] It is not the weapon with the strap, but bayonet with the gun and rifle ostensibly charged that the Krauts are guarding themselves; they are too many and the escapes would be too easy for them at least in the ports, among this pell-mell of boats, of sometimes doubtful nationalities. They must be cowards as they are not to have succeeded in massacring the few men who contained them and to escape twenty times for one. Frenchmen would have realized this a long time ago; their friends are Krauts; and their discipline, you praise them, is that they know that we only ask for the opportunity to shoot in the heap. - And don't tell me that this lacks nobility: we all find here, wise heads of Frenchmen that we are, that it would be as much less on earth, which is the main thing, and without risking the noble French flesh, which is the main thing, I say: for humanity"... - September 28. "The Krauts persist in appearing to you as masters, it seems. You even ask whether we will not become their allies - that is to say, their protégés, & I feel that you think that this is the best thing that could happen to us. Ask yourself - until they have taught the Russians... what the Russians taught the Japanese in Manchuria after they had famously taught the Europeans in the Crimea, having themselves learned it from the generals of Louis XIV - ask yourself rather if there will remain a Germany. At the present time one can be anything one wants, except skeptical. [...] Whether Maurras or any other feels for Philip VIII a feeling of affection or aversion, that is not the question. The question is that to the social body, to the national body, as to any body (you agree) it is necessary a head, and a head which lasts therefore, necessarily, lasts as much as he does "... - October 19. On his treatment after an infection... Questions about Philip VIII...
March 8, 1916. "It is abominably freezing here and we lack straw. - I accomplish a lot of incredible jobs; I am recruited of tiredness, I have chilblains, a panaritis, the bruised feet, the cold and the dysentery, I almost burst and I am delighted. I am useful for something, and soon I will probably be more useful. I am precisely with Algerian artillerymen: tough and handsome guys, tough and handsome pieces. It spits, it thunders, it hits"... - March 26th. "I have just undressed, for the first time since February 14.
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