Lot n° 166
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ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. 1790-1869. - Lot 166
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. 1790-1869.
To the editor, March 11, 1850. Las 2 p. in-4. About Danton as he describes him in the third volume of "Les Girondins": Danton was above all driven to murder by a more personal and less theoretical cause: his character.... He consented to be the phenomenon of revolutionary rage. There was vanity in his perfection.... A people who needed to be inebriated with blood to defend their homeland would be a people of villains, not a people of heroes. Heroism is the opposite of murder. As for the revolution, its prestige lay in its justice and morality...." He concludes his letter with "Voilà Monsieur, in what terms these Days are rehabilitated, which are the horror of France and the opprobrium of their authors...".
Enclosed is a letter from "an enemy of the Girondins" to Monsieur de Lamartine, February 14, 1861. 4 p. in-12. If my tribute is therefore anonymous, please see in it no greater proof of its sincerity and disinterestedness...
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