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Il se peut aussi qu’elle ait chargé de la commission quelqu’un qui n’aura pas été ponctuel à s’en acquitter. […] Ce qu’il y a de sur est que je n’ai receu ni argent ni avis\". He also did not receive the package sent by Duchesne containing copies of Imitation théâtrale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen he speaks of the five volumes of his Works published by Duchesne: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJe n’ai point de présens à faire de votre édition, que je ne dois ni ne veux reconnoitre pour mienne. Si vous me permettez, cependant, de disposer de deux ou trois exemplaires, je pourrai le faire ci-après; mais cela ne presse pas. J’aurois été bien aise aussi d’en avoir un complet, et vous savez que dans ce que vous m’avez envoyé manquent les titres, les estampes, la préface et tout le Tome cinquième.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVous m’obligerez beaucoup de mettre à vos envois futurs un arrangement qui me les rende acceptables; mais quand à présent il convient de les suspendre. Je ferai puisque vous le voulez une estimation des précédens et j’en ferai le cadeau de votre part à Mlle Le Vasseur [compagne de Rousseau]; mais il faudra qu’elle attende; des arrangemens sur lesquels je comptois ayant manqué. […]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eL’intérest que vous voulez bien prendre à mon état m’engage à vous dire que j’ai senti du relâche depuis six semaines; j’avois même recommencé de sortir par les beaux jours que nous avons eus; mais le retour de la neige et de la gelée m’a de nouveau renfermé. Je suis obligé de fendre du bois pour me mettre en sueur deux fois par jour; c’est, de tous les remedes que j’ai tentés en ma vie, le seul qui m’ait procuré le moindre soulagement\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49798199148869,"sku":"0074","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/Recto.jpg?v=1721726183"},{"product_id":"le-diable-boiteux","title":"Le Diable boiteux.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLESAGE Alain-René. Le Diable boiteux.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis, Chez La Veuve Barbin,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e1707.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn-8 (164 x 99 mm): [6] ff, 318 pp, [5] ff. Full black jansenist morocco, spine with faux-nerves, author and title stamped in gold in the second box, date stamped in gold at the tail of the spine, edges decorated with a double gilt fillet, gilt edges, interior roulette (\u003cem\u003eM. Godillot\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtremely rare first edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Copies of this first edition are extremely rare’ (Tchemerzine), and only around ten copies of the first edition have been recorded (Cohen).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is mainly due to the fact that Lesage reworked the text of the 1726 edition - the earlier editions were then abandoned (Cordier). However, \u003cstrong\u003ethe novel was so successful that thirteen editions were published between 1707 and 1711\u003c\/strong\u003e. Our copy is in second condition, with folio B1 (page 17) hardback and pages 141 to 144 repeated (Tchemerzine).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLesage dedicated the book to the Spanish Golden Age author Louis Velez de Guevara (1579-1644), since it is an adaptation of El Diablo Cojuelo. 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Leconte de Lisle was elected to the Académie on 11 February 1886, taking over the seat from Victor Hugo (who had died in 1885) after Hugo had voted for Leconte de Lisle in his second candidacy, thus making our poet his legitimate successor.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the library of the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Maumont and Ryckebusch; their bookplates on the flyleaf. 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Puget de la Serre (1594-1665), a prolific author, ‘cultivated almost all historical and literary genres and composed more than one hundred works which earned him the title of historiographer of France’. (Kokkomelis).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur copy presents 10 coloured figures representing princesses bearing the first name Anne, with a ruled text. All are enhanced with blue, white, red, green, gold and black inks. The motto is repeated 14 times in a sublime headband with a crowned eagle enhanced with the various inks listed above. In the same way, 14 letterheads, also enhanced, are repeated in the work; 13 letterheads show the letter A (gilt) for Anne with the crowned eagle on a blue background and 1 letterhead shows the letter M (gilt) for Madame with the crowned eagle and two floral representations. There are also 8 bas-de-lampe panels bearing the monogram of Anne of Austria, with its golden crown and floral representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePuget de la Serre was often scorned by his contemporaries, and the book is one of his many panegyrics. He became a specialist in dedicatory epistles and made them his sole source of income (Banderier) and responded to criticism by saying ‘I am always in a hurry, when it comes to earning money; and I prefer the pistoles that make me live comfortably, to the chimera of a vain glory that would leave me miserable.’ (Banderier). Above all, Puget de la Serre's attention to detail was crucial to his illustrations, from portraits - his preferred mode of representation - to lettering, vignettes, headbands, frontispieces and even the text itself, which he often set off with a line of red or black ink - in this case gilded (Meyer).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFine restorations to corners and spine, paper restorations to pages 9 and 19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKokkomelis,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLes portraits au service des grands : Jean Puget de la Serre et les temps multiples de l'exemplification historique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 385-400, dans : Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, XLV, n°89, 2018 ; Gille Banderier,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUn faux roman à la clef : Le roman de la cour de Bruxelles de Jean Puget de La Serre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Littératures classiques, 2005, n°51, p.118 ; Véronique Meyer,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUn auteur du XVIIe siècle et l'illustration de ses livres, Jean Puget de La Serre (1595-1665)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, t.158, 2000, p.27-53.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54937709838661,"sku":"0258","price":10500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/5036.jpg?v=1750072721"},{"product_id":"paul-et-virginie-suivie-de-la-chaumiere-indienne","title":"Paul et Virginie, suivie de la Chaumière indienne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBERNARDIN de SAINT-PIERRE Jacques-Henri. 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Faki.\u003cbr data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1240\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith:\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1325\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"445\"\u003e—\u003cspan\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"442\"\u003eRecueil sur l'Histoire du romantisme.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"448\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParis: Le Bien public, 1872. \u003c\/span\u003e4to (287 × 212 mm). 115 ff. Contemporary red half-morocco, spine gilt in compartments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1854\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1646\"\u003eFirst edition. One of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only large-paper issue.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1646\" data-end=\"1649\"\u003eA well-preserved example, bound in period style and retaining the original wrappers. Mounted in the front pastedown is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1825\"\u003eoriginal photographic portrait of Gautier by Nadar\u003c\/strong\u003e, on the photographer’s card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"2307\"\u003eGautier’s \u003cem data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1890\"\u003eHistoire du romantisme\u003c\/em\u003e, first issued in serial form in \u003cem data-start=\"1923\" data-end=\"1939\"\u003eLe Bien public\u003c\/em\u003e in 1872, is regarded as a \u003cstrong data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2024\"\u003eprincipal source for the history of French Romanticism\u003c\/strong\u003e. Poet, critic, and central figure of the 1830 generation, Gautier provides a \u003cstrong data-start=\"2102\" data-end=\"2150\"\u003efirst-hand account of the movement’s origins\u003c\/strong\u003e, its leading personalities, and its early disputes. 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M. de Pallarès nous montre donc Nietszche enfant prodigue (ou prodige ?) disciple de Schopenhauer et de Naguer, critique se tourant avec ferveur contre un maître, contre son ami d'hier, souffrant de tous ses nerfs, mégalomane, évangéliste, Jara illustre, puis sombrant dans la démence complète douze ans avant de mourir. Impulsif, instable, obsédé, neurasthénique, pharmacomane, ce fait un faiuble et un [?]. C'est pourquoi il ne parle que de ce qui lui manque surtout : la force et la volonté.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003eC'est l'accusation où j'étais au Crucifié : \"Si tu es le Christ, sauve-toi toi-même !\" Je la reconnais. Je ne rapproche pas ici le Christ, de Nietzsche [encore que M. Biret Sanglot nous ait démontré naguère que le Nazarien n'était lui aussi qu'un malade et qu'un fou] ; je rapproche seulement cette accusation qu'on leur lance et qui procède exactement de la même incompréhension. 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Toute son oeuvre n'est qu'un essai de réorganisation selon sa raison, sa logique, du désordre qu'ils sont en lui ; car l'état d'insinuation d'être est intolérable. Et je ne dis pas naturellement qu'il suffise d'être déséquilibré pour devenir réformateur - mais bien que tout réformateur [texte rayé] eu d'abord un déséquilibre. Et naturellement on peut penser ensuite comme ceux-ci sans être déséquilibré soi-même ; mais c'est un état de déséquilibre qui d'abord appela ces pensées à la rescousse dont le réformateur avait besoin pour rétablir en lui l'équilibre rompu. [texte rayé]\u003cbr\u003eRousseau, sans sa folie n'aurait donné qu'un indigeste [?] ; et c'est précisément dans la folie de Nietzsche que je vois le brevet de son authentique grandeur.\u003cbr\u003eJe ne sache pas qu'on puisse en trouver un seul, de ceux qui proposèrent à l'humanité des nouvelles évaluations, en qui M. 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Reduced to working as a travelling salesman between \u003cstrong data-end=\"1121\" data-start=\"1103\"\u003eLyon and Milan\u003c\/strong\u003e, he asks the Minister both for \u003cstrong data-end=\"1179\" data-start=\"1153\"\u003epayment of the arrears\u003c\/strong\u003e and for \u003cstrong data-end=\"1283\" data-start=\"1188\"\u003eauthorisation to receive his pension without being forced to reside permanently in Grenoble\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA document of \u003cb\u003emajor importance for Stendhal's biography and for the history of the Napoleonic aftermath.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;\"\u003e«\u0026nbsp;Monseigneur,\u003cbr\u003eAprès avoir fait douze campagnes et avoir perdu le peu que j'avais à la retraite de Moscou, pendant laquelle j'ai rempli une mission importante à Orcha\u0026nbsp;et à Bobr, je me trouve sans ressources. Il ne me reste au monde qu'une demi-solde de 900 fr. comme adjoint au commissaire des guerres, nommé à Koenigsberg en 1807. M. l'intendant militaire de Grenoble a suspendu cette demi-solde depuis le mois d'octobre 1817, et ce, parce que je ne pouvais pas me trouver à Grenoble, tous les mois à jour fixe. Je réclamai et n'obtins\u0026nbsp;pas de réponse. Depuis 1814, j'ai été fort mal vu par les autorités de Grenoble, et comme forcé à m'expatrier, tout cela parce que j'avais été envoyé à la 7e division militaire en décembre 1813 (voir le\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eMoniteur\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;du 26 décembre 1813). J'avais cherché par tous les moyens à empêcher l'invasion du territoire français ; j'avais contribué à un appel aux anciens militaires dauphinois, et, alors, M. le baron Rostaing était employé à Grenoble. Je n'ai jamais eu qu'à me louer de messieurs les intendants militaires de Grenoble. Mais je compris que M. le baron Rostaing étant employé à Paris, j'avais peu d'espoir d'obtenir une réponse à mes réclamations. Par surcroît de disgrâce, je me trouvais à Grenoble lors de l'affaire Didier, à laquelle j'étais parfaitement étranger. je vis que je n'avais plus d'autre ressource que de m'expatrier. Comme je me trouvais savoir l'anglais et l'italien, j'obtins une place de commis-voyageur dans la maison Robert frères de Lyon et Milan. Ces messieurs anciens militaires, me donnent un appointement de 1.500 fr.\u003cbr\u003eJe renouvelle maintenant la réclamation à laquelle il n'a pas été répondu dans le temps. Je supplie très humblement votre Excellence de faire vérifier au bureau de la cavalerie et à celui des commissaires des guerres si je n'ai pas fait douze campagnes depuis Marengo jusqu'à Moscou en qualité de sous-lieutenant au 6e régiment de dragons, d'adjoint aux commissaires des guerres et d'auditeur au Conseil d'État, section de la guerre. Je suis bien connu de M. le général Michaud, dont j'ai été aide de camp, de M. le général Mathieu Dumas, qui m'a employé dans Moscou, et de M. le comte Daru. J'ai été à la section de la guerre de 1811 à 1814, lorsque Son Excellence Monseigneur le Maréchal Gouvion-Saint-Cyr était conseiller d'État à la même section.\u003cbr\u003eMaintenant je me trouve absolument sans ressources autres que ma petite place dans le commerce. Le corps des Commissaires des guerres étant supprimé, je suis dans une position différente de celle de messieurs les officiers à demi-solde qui, d'un jour à l'autre, peuvent être remis en activité.\u003cbr\u003eA ces titres, je supplie Votre Excellence :\u003cbr\u003e1° De décider que je toucherai à Grenoble l'arriéré de la demi-solde d'adjoint aux commissaires des guerres à partir du 1er octobre 1817.\u003cbr\u003e2° De m'accorder un congé afin que dorénavant je puisse toucher cette demi-solde sans être toujours présent à Grenoble, ou du moins en me présentant une fois par an. Cette présence à Grenoble me coûtera annuellement 3 ou 400 francs; mes affaires comme commis-voyageur de la maison Robert me retiennent toute l'année sur les grandes routes de Lyon à Milan, Livourne, Naples.\u003cbr\u003eJe reconnais que j'ai besoin d'un peu de grâce; mais l'État ne pouvant donner à un Français de trente-six ans et qui sert depuis l'âge de dix-sept ans, qu'un secours de 900 fr., voudra-t-il m'empêcher de faire un métier pour vivre, surtout l'État ayant supprimé le corps dans lequel ce Français servait ? Si la pension suffisait à le faire vivre, ou si le corps n'était pas supprimé, le cas serait différent. J'ose donc espérer qu'en considération des douze campagnes que j'ai faites, Votre Excellence\u0026nbsp;daignera m'accorder le payement de 900 fr. par an, montant de la demi-solde qui m'est due comme adjoint aux commissaires des guerres depuis 1807.\u003cbr\u003eJe suis, avec un profond respect, Monseigneur, de Votre Excellence, le très humble et très obéissant serviteur.\u003cbr\u003eL'adjoint aux Commissaires des Guerres,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;\"\u003eH. Beyle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-ansi-language: FR;\"\u003eM. 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The letterhead is signed in green ink and Khrushchev has written the names of Comrades Korniyets and Roudnytsky, along with his signature and the date ‘8\/XII\/49’ (8 December 1949). The Poltava Regional Committee gives a very positive assessment of the rebuilding of livestock stocks since the war, but alerts Khrushchev to the critical situation regarding fodder supplies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ПАРТИЯ (большевиков) УКРАИНЫ\u003cbr\u003eПОЛТАВСКИЙ ОБЛАСТНОЙ КОМИТЕТ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eСекретарю ЦК КП(б)У\u003cbr\u003eтоварищу ХРУЩЕВУ Н. С.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eВыполняя решения партии и правительства о развитии животноводства, трудящиеся колхозов и совхозов области добились, что в настоящее время количество крупного рогатого скота превосходит уровень довоенного 1940 года, примерно на 35 % или на 90 тыс. голов. 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Вместе с тем, этот завод выпускает большое количество сухого жома, который по нарядам Министерства отгружается за пределы нашей области. Таким образом, если учесть, как количество сухого жома в переводе на свежий жом отгружается за пределы области, плюс необходимое количество жома, которое потребляется для круглогодовой работы пункта государственного откорма скота, то завод не имеет возможности отоварить жомом все колхозы за сданную им свеклу.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eТаких сахарных заводов, что вырабатывают сухой жом три: им. Сталина, им. 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The number of pigs has increased noticeably; in particular, the number of pigs being fattened in the collective and state farms has risen sharply in order to fulfil, with this category of livestock, the State plan for meat deliveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1244\"\u003eHowever, in view of the unfavourable climatic conditions of this year, the fodder balance in the collective and state farms of our region is very strained, and a number of collective and state farms are experiencing difficulties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1487\"\u003eA major contribution to the fodder balance is provided by sugar-beet pulp, but its delivery to the beet-growing collective farms is associated with great difficulties, and for collective farms remote from the railway it is almost impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1489\" data-end=\"2299\"\u003eMoreover, the Stalin Sugar Factory, which processes up to 35,000 centners of beet per day, receives beet from a number of districts and collective farms situated at the opposite end of the region, to which the shipment of fresh pulp by rail transport is difficult. At the same time, this factory produces a large quantity of dried pulp, which, according to the allocations of the Ministry, is shipped beyond the boundaries of our region. Thus, if one takes into account the quantity of dried pulp converted into its equivalent in fresh pulp that is shipped outside the region, plus the necessary quantity of pulp consumed for the year-round operation of the State cattle-fattening station, the factory has no possibility of supplying pulp to all the collective farms in exchange for the beet delivered by them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2301\" data-end=\"2599\"\u003eThere are three such sugar factories producing dried pulp: the Stalin Factory, the Ilyich Factory, and the Gramkov Factory, which are required to produce 35,000 centners of dried pulp and to ship it to other regions, which, when converted into fresh pulp, amounts to approximately 450,000 centners.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Khrushchev was one of the main figures responsible for the reconstruction of Soviet agriculture in Ukraine, against a backdrop of chronic shortages and extremely rigid planning. 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Tant que mes yeux peuvent encore te voir nager dans mon horizon - un mince espoir me reste - celui de te voir revenir - par un retour de flamme - avant d'accoster dans le nouveau royaume que tu convoites - ou peut être encore celui de te voir revenir - après que tu te seras rassasiée - si j'ai pu me tenir sur l'eau pendant ce temps-là ! ce dont je doute.\u003cbr\u003eJ'essaie depuis deux mois de m'exténuer dans le travail - mais ma pensée tremble au bout de ma plume - et je n'écris pas un mot qui se dilue dans les ondes invisibles de ta chevelure. Les sirènes n'agissent pas mieux que toi avec leurs victimes.\u003cbr\u003eDepuis que tu n'es plus une femme pour moi - mais une sorte de rêve merveilleux évanescent - quelque chose de terrible gronde en moi. Si je pouvais physiquement tout au moins te tromper - peut-être serais-je sauvé à moitié - mais c'est une si dangereuse solution que j'hésite devant elle comme devant un sacrilège. \u003cbr\u003eEt c'est un drame physique qui s'ajoute à l'autre.\u003cbr\u003eJe ne perdrai jamais Belen - car elle est dans une autre dimension que Nelly - mais je ne veux pas non plus perdre Nelly - et je ferai bientôt ce qu'il faudra pour cela - si le point d'interrogation que je me pose déjà ne s'agrandit pas au point de me fermer toutes les portes de sortie.\u003cbr\u003eN'est-il pas déjà trop tard ? Si je ne retourne pas chez toi - le même feu, la même force - la même confiance, la même pureté - les mêmes ailes que tu avais - je risque de ne plus voir en toi - que la copie vide de cette lumière merveilleuse que tu me dispensais à profusion. Et quel sera alors notre dose à tous deux devant ce lac de regrets ?\u003cbr\u003eTu n'arrives pas à t'expliquer mon attitude. Tu la cherches dans de petites raisons sordides qui ne sont pas exactes - et je crois que si tu ouvrais mon coeur comme un livre - tu aurais des remords d'après aussi durement avec moi.\u003cbr\u003ePeut-être n'as-tu pas compris que c'est l'énorme poids des larmes que je n'ai jamais pu verser — larmes lourdes et dangereuses comme celles d'un océan en tempête — où toi et toute la vie se confondent — larmes qui m'étouffent depuis l'âge de raison — et qui annihilent tous mes actes — et me laissent interdit et timide à la porte du bonheur, comme si je n'y avais pas droit. Voilà sans doute le réel motif de ma lenteur pour m'élever vers toi. Ce n'est pas un mirage — c'est un fait physiologique — pathologique si tu veux — mais c'est ainsi.\u003cbr\u003eJe n'ose pas entrer dans ta vie en traînant un tel poids de désespoirs à mes semelles.\u003cbr\u003eJe voudrais m'en débarrasser — les amoindrir — avant qu'ils ne se multiplient — mais, depuis Forges-les-Eaux — ce poids redouble — et Mar del Plata m'en a saturé. Je t'en supplie Nelly, ne crache plus sur moi, si tu ne veux pas pleurer sur ma tombe !\u003cbr\u003eEt toutes ces larmes silencieuses, comme un mascaret invisible, emportent mes résolutions comme des châteaux de cartes dès que tu te dresses en ennemie devant moi. Je ne puis alors me raccrocher à rien de solide — et mon amour se noie — Si, de temps à autre, un sourire — un mot de toi — un serrement de main — éclaire cet orage constant — la nuit retombe et la vague déferle parce que tes mots m'ont cruellement blessé — parce que tes absences m'inquiètent — parce que tes yeux sont devenus d'acier.\u003cbr\u003ePour ne pas perdre au jeu — il faut martingaler sans arrêt, c'est-à-dire doubler sans cesse la mise qu'on a perdue — jusqu'à ce que le bon numéro sorte — et — il n'est pas d'exemple que devant la constance du joueur — il n'arrive à sortir — multipliant d'un coup toutes les mises perdues. Tu me parais abandonner le jeu parce que tu fais le calcul des coups passés et des désillusions — et que tu préfères sortir perdante en claquant violemment la porte. C'est à ce moment-là que le N° gagnant sort. Trop tard hélas ! Puisque tu ne joues plus, tu ne peux plus gagner.\u003cbr\u003eBelen. Entends bien ce que je te dis — écoute le grondement de ma force psychique — IL NE FAUT PAS NOUS SÉPARER ! Il ne faut pas créer un précipice entre nous. « des plus petits sont les plus difficiles à combler », dit Nietzsche — Pas d'irrémédiable ! — puisque le temps approche — Ne m'enlève pas ma confiance en toi — ce serait plus dramatique que le contraire — nous passons le cap le plus difficile de notre vie commune en ce moment.\u003cbr\u003eCe que tu appelles ta lucidité est celle de Nelly, ce n'est pas celle de Belen — Et c'est pourquoi je la trouve vraiment en défaut.\u003cbr\u003eJe comprends et j'accepte toutes les raisons — sauf une : celle de sous-estimer la qualité et la noblesse de mes sentiments quels qu'ils soient. Moi aussi, j'ai comme toi, quelque part en moi — du sang d'étoile — mais tu ne sembles plus t'en souvenir — et c'est pourquoi je n'ai pas compris ton indifférence en Argentine — où je la méritais cependant là moins qu'ailleurs.\u003cbr\u003eJe ne cherche ni à t'apitoyer — ni à te faire réfléchir — ni à m'excuser — je te dis ce que je pense, voilà tout. Je t'ai avoué hier soir que tu avais raison sur tous les plans, sauf sur un seul — et je reviens à ce que je disais en haut de cette page — celui de la qualité indicible de mon amour pour toi — celui de mon admiration pour toi — celui de la certitude où j'étais jusqu'à maintenant qu'il ne se pourrait pas que le temps — ou les faits extérieurs — puissent, sans jouer, nous faire perdre confiance l'un dans l'autre.\u003cbr\u003eEt maintenant — je peux paraphraser [?] avec certitude :\u003cbr\u003e« Tu peux éparpiller la cendre de notre amour aux quatre vents — il en sortira des flammes qui ne cesseront de t'entourer de leur chaleur jusqu'à la mort »\u003cbr\u003eTon Abel Gance\u003cbr\u003eMalgré tous les malgrés\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowed by a vertical marginal note:\u003cbr\u003e\"N'oublie jamais que tu m'as écrit à Forges-les-Eaux :\u003cbr\u003e« Je me suis poussée par une fatalité qui me fait toujours quitter ce que j'aime et attendre ce qui ne viendra jamais ». 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Journal I. - Journal II. - Journal III.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis: Grasset,\u003c\/em\u003e 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (188 x 125 mm). Vol. I: (4) ff., 226 pp., (3) ff.; Vol. II: 230 pp., (2) ff.; Vol. III: 218 pp., (2) ff., original spine and wrappers preserved.\u003cbr\u003eBurgundy half-shagreen with corners, spine with raised bands, author, title and volume number gilt, top edge gilt (modern binding).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst editions, each volume with an autograph presentation inscription from the author to JACQUES-ÉMILE BLANCHE and his wife.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Mauriac met Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1915, beginning a friendship with him that would last until the painter's death. A correspondence between the two men exists and was published by Harmattan in 2025, edited by Jean-Pierre Constant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInscription in vol. 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M.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpines slightly faded; the rear wrapper of volume II is split for a few millimetres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59021508837701,"sku":"0958","price":600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/0958-mauriac-01.jpg?v=1787931008"},{"product_id":"la-contre-revolution-spontanee-la-recherche-la-discussion-l-emeute-1899-1939","title":"La contre-révolution spontanée. La recherche, la discussion, l'émeute 1899-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAURRAS, Charles. La contre-révolution spontanée. La recherche, la discussion, l'émeute 1899-1939.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis: H. Lardanchet, 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (209 x 135 mm). 261 pp., (3) ff.\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, unopened, untrimmed, with its plain brown wrappers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, limited deluxe edition on china paper - copy no. 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1943, the work looks back on four decades of Charles Maurras's political thought and struggles, from 1899 to 1939, concerning the counter-revolution and the political doctrine he developed within Action française.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA perfect copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59021619462469,"sku":"0973","price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/0973-maurras-01.jpg?v=1788193573"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/livres-precieux.oembed?page=3","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}