HUGO (Victor). Autograph letter signed with... - Lot 84 - Osenat

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HUGO (Victor). Autograph letter signed with... - Lot 84 - Osenat
HUGO (Victor). Autograph letter signed with his initials [to the writer Édouard Plouvier]. Marine Terrace in Jersey, "22 Xbre" [1854]. 4 pp. in-16, two tiny tears affecting two words. SUPERB LETTER OF EXILE TO JERSEY where he had arrived in August 1852. "MARINE TERRACE THANKS VENICE, THE FOG THANKS THE BLUE, THE RAIN THANKS THE SUN, THE MOURNING THANKS THE JOY. You have done well, poet, to send me this dream [Le Songe d'une nuit d'hiver, a comedy by Édouard Plouvier]. I am in winter, I am in the night. I have just dreamed it all in one breath. I thought I was Angelo, and I almost waited for Rosalinde and Cleosina, Rosalinde to open my door and Cleosina to open my heart. I want to shout to you at once: thank you, for this moment of sleep that you have given BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021 106to my sadness, for this flash of awakening that you have given to my joys. Your comedy, full of fine prose and exquisite verse, is quite simply ravishing gold. The prose is gold, the verse is pearls. Your noble and worthy letter goes to my heart. The fire will not perish as long as there are fires like you. You are right, I HOPE, I WAIT, I BELIEVE, I AM SURE. I, TOO, KNOW THE LIVING STRENGTH OF THE ETERNITY OF THE SACRED FLAME, ALL THE HURRICANES OF EXILE AND OF THE OCEAN BLOW ON IT, THEY TORMENT IT, BUT DO NOT EXTINGUISH IT, IT IS A PROUD THING THAT THE SOUL. Your charming wife [the actress Lucie Mabire] who had so deeply sculpted in her beauty the mourning of LA SACHETTE [a character in Notre-Dame de Paris], is certainly very capable of embodying LUCRECE BORGIA, MARION, MARIE TUDOR. She makes, I repeat, of her beauty the statue she wants and of her soul the passion the poet wants. Your two intertwined futures will certainly reach a double radiance. Bravo for her! Courage for you!... THE WEATHER IS HORRIBLE HERE, and makes me think with sadness of those poor victims of the Black Sea [some forty ships engaged in the Crimean War had just been wrecked in the Black Sea]. MY HORIZON IS BUT A NIGHT. THE STORM PUTS ME TO SLEEP AT NIGHT AND THE WATERSPOUT WAKES ME UP IN THE MORNING. All this immense mourning enters my soul and makes me think of the two radiations of France, BUT NOTHING SHAKENS ME AND NOTHING WILL SHOCK ME, I WILL DIE HERE, IF I HAVE TO. THE OCEAN IS THERE UNDER MY WINDOW, I LOOK AT THIS INDOMITABLE, AND I SAY TO HIM: LET'S PLAY. I shake your noble good hand... The whole colony thanks and loves you. »
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