Autograph letter signed ("George Sand"), in French, to "Mister Bernard" at 12 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, a long letter in which she discusses the possible publication of his work, even though she herself at the moment has not publisher; the letter concluded, she takes another sheet and begins to reminisce about the garden walks and conversations that they used to have together: "I used to tell you that, like the true woman that I am, I had taken the ideas of my century from the angle of sentiment, enthusiasm or the heart, rather than through science or logic... I could never help foolishly loving my fellow men, and consequently speaking in appreciation of historical events, which today are wrongly called politics, and of the intensities and loathings of passion, so that, having for the first time seen from close up men and events, and also the masses a little, in February 1847 I went back to my retreat discouraged, downcast, and having no longer the least desire to see them again. You used to tell me something that struck me very much, that is that men were all as cowardly and bad as one another, the highest, the lowest and in the middle; and that one should take account of them only as figures, when discussing politics, that the only difference between them was that of principles; and that one should understand the opinion rather than the man"; with autograph envelope, postmarked, 5 pages on two bifolia, tipped onto album leaves, minor spotting, stamp removed from envelope, large 8vo, Nohant, 7 March 1850
Autograph letter signed ("George Sand"), in French, to "Mister Bernard" at 12 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, a long letter in which she discusses the possible publication of his work, even though she herself at the moment has not publisher; the letter concluded, she takes another sheet and begins to reminisce about the garden walks and conversations that they used to have together: "I used to tell you that, like the true woman that I am, I had taken the ideas of my century from the angle of sentiment, enthusiasm or the heart, rather than through science or logic... I could never help foolishly loving my fellow men, and consequently speaking in appreciation of historical events, which today are wrongly called politics, and of the intensities and loathings of passion, so that, having for the first time seen from close up men and events, and also the masses a little, in February 1847 I went back to my retreat discouraged, downcast, and having no longer the least desire to see them again. You used to tell me something that struck me very much, that is that men were all as cowardly and bad as one another, the highest, the lowest and in the middle; and that one should take account of them only as figures, when discussing politics, that the only difference between them was that of principles; and that one should understand the opinion rather than the man"; with autograph envelope, postmarked, 5 pages on two bifolia, tipped onto album leaves, minor spotting, stamp removed from envelope, large 8vo, Nohant, 7 March 1850
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