He would like the "Ramé maroquin" that his correspondent saw on rue Lafayette. This is undoubtedly referring to the Grammar of Pierre de La Ramée.
"It's fantastic, my friend, that you knew about the election before my dispatch! I myself announced them to the Secretary of War a little later.
" He will call him, but adds "that today everything is in Le Figaro for Clermont-Ferrand." 3 2 letters addressed to the head of the "small speed" service of the railways. 1 and a half pages. Maurice Barrès complains about not having received packages he sent by small and large speed from the Charmes station (Vosges). He writes twice to the head of the "Small Speed" service. The small speed packages included "three trunks and a basket of clothes, two boxes of jam, a box of books, a hat trunk." For the large speed packages: "3 bags of vegetables and a box of fruits." 4 Signed autograph letter addressed to a friend.Maurice Barrès is then a deputy. Political letter on Alsace and relations with Germany. "Before returning to Paris, I owe you the pleasure I had of seeing you in agreement. You and all your family, who know so well what is beautiful and done in Germany, you must also show us its poison and antidote. How to dissociate their values and flaws?
This work that you ask of Alsace, we ask of Alsatians like you. By our revolutionaries and administrators of the early 19th century. Can we reject this kind of humanity? I am very happy that you raise the issue. I shake your hand affectionately. He makes an appointment to "explain the matter." "I am very sorry if I have caused you harm." "I will explain the matter.It is true that your portrait is charming. A beautiful tribute to the novelist Paul Hervieu.
The writer first thanks him for his "admirable book... I loved you there, as I have loved you at each of your new stages.
But I have never felt more strongly what I so deeply appreciate in you: the sincerity of emotion, its poignant accent, the pathos of a trembling being." They certainly meet through texts, but they do not know each other, as they were not friends and did not share their lives at the age of twenty-five. However, in his books, Barrès finds "a being for whom [he has] such affectionate, so akin feelings." He alludes to one of Paul Hervieu's previous works, L'Esquimau: "... Your Eskimo loved the seal.
" He also congratulates him on his penultimate book and felt "sublime truths." "Looking at the dark manner of the Spaniards, I thought of the most recent.