Alphonse de LAMARTINE. 2 L.A. (incomplete at the end), Mâcon - Lot 371

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Alphonse de LAMARTINE. 2 L.A. (incomplete at the end), Mâcon - Lot 371
Alphonse de LAMARTINE. 2 L.A. (incomplete at the end), Mâcon 1831–1832, [to the Marquise de Montcalm]; 2 pages in-4 each (small marginal tear on the first). August 21, 1831. He forgives the Marquise’s “harsh words” regarding his political views and affirms his friendship and loyalty. He praises the stance taken by Lainé, who has resigned from the House of Peers: “In my eyes, he is the Plato of politics.” For his part, he does not wish to run for the Chamber: “I do not have the strength to contend with so many passions and indignities. I lack the gift of the gab. If I had it, I would be the master of the country”… January 13, 1832. Ill since Christmas and worried about his father’s health, he had been unable to write to the marquise sooner: “But I love you and will always love you—here as in Paris, in Jerusalem as in Constantinople. […] I write little because my soul is sad and the outward flow of thought is dormant.” He will not settle in Paris: “I am therefore content to support, within my small bourgeois and local sphere, the cause of ordinary people and of hope, and to wash my hands of the follies committed and yet to come”… Enclosed is a letter from his friend Louis de Vignet, addressed to Lamartine in Mâcon, Chambéry [December 28, 1816] (2 pp., in-4, addressed; small tear at one corner), written after a stay in Mâcon, discussing his friend’s parents, their friend Aymon de Virieu, and Mme C. [Julie Charles, “Elvire”]…
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