Talvart & Place, I, 13D.<\/i><\/p>\n
New edition of the Memorandum <\/i>(first published in 1856).<\/p>\n
In the preface, Paul Bourget outlines the contents of this work : “Les cahiers de notes intimes auxquels M. Barbey d’Aurevilly a donn\u00e9 le titre de Memoranda <\/i>se rapportent \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque de sa vie d’\u00e9crivain qui fut le plus f\u00e9cond en \u0153uvres. N’est-ce pas aux environs de ces ann\u00e9es-l\u00e0 que la Vieille Ma\u00eetresse<\/i> successivement et L’Ensorcel\u00e9e<\/i> et les Ricochets de Conversation<\/i> – devenus dans Les Diaboliques<\/i> et apr\u00e8s coup le Dessous des cartes d’une partie de Whist<\/i> – furent publi\u00e9es ?”.<\/p>\n
An exceptional copy, enriched with a fine incription in two-tone red and gold ink : “\u00e0 monsieur de Ronchaud, au plus d\u00e9licat des esprits. Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly”.<\/p>\n
Barbey d’Aurevilly and Louis de Ronchaud were both members of the literary salon of Clarisse Coignet (1824-1918), a friend and correspondent of Charles Fourier. Louise Ackermann, Marie d’Agoult (Daniel Stern), Louis de Ronchaud, Barbey d’Aurevilly and other leading figures met in her republican salon.<\/p>\n
Although Memoranda <\/i>was a response to the fashion for publishing diaries at the end of the century, it is unusual in that it was always intended for publication and at the request of the author’s family, unlike the diaries of Delacroix or Benjamin Constant, which were published posthumously. The first Memorendum <\/i>was written in Caen in 1856 at the request of his lifelong friend Guillaume-Stanislas Tr\u00e9butien.<\/p>\n
The location of the beginning of his memoirs is important. Not only did Barbey always remain attached to his native Normandy, but it was also in Caen that Tr\u00e9butien published some of his friend’s works at his own expense (including La bague d’Annibal<\/i> and Les Proph\u00e8tes du pass\u00e9<\/i>). Tr\u00e9butien is omnipresent in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s abundant correspondence. A translator, editor and scholar, he advised, reread and sometimes guided him. Unfortunately, the two friends fell out in 1858.<\/p>\n
The second Memorendum begins in 1858 and recounts Barbey d’Aurevilly’s trip to the Pyrenees with \u2018L’Ange Blanc\u2019, the Baroness de Bouglon whom he met in 1851 in the salon of Baroness Almaury de Maistre.<\/p>\n
A very fine copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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