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THE ROMANCISTS
JULES CLARETIE
BIBLIOTHÈQUEDES CHEFS-D'ŒUVREDU ROMANCONTEMPORAIN
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JULES CLARETIE
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| To Alphonse Daudet | Preface | ||||||||
| Part First | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | |
| Part Second | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX |
| List of Illustrations | |||||||||
My dear friend,
Ideas sometimes float about in the air like the pollen of flowers. Foryears past I have been at work collecting notes for this book which Ihave decided to dedicate to you.
In one of your charming prefaces, you told us lately that you onlypainted from nature. We are both of us, I imagine, in our day andgeneration, quite captivated and carried away by that modern societyfrom which in your exquisite creations you have so well understood howto extract the essence.
What is it that I have desired to do this time? That which we have bothbeen trying to do at one and the same time: to seize, in passing, thesest