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DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père (1802-1870)
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DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). A wonderful A.L.S., Al. Dumas, three pages, 8vo, n.p. (Naples), 10th November (1862), to his son, in French. Dumas commences his letter declaring ´Certainement que j'ai un joli fils. Et j'en suis Dieu merci aussi fier au physique qu'au moral. Mais toi aussi tu as un père qui ne perd pas son temps. Après avoir défait un roi de Naples, le voilà qui fait un roi de Grèce comme tu peux le voir par les deux lettres que je t'envoie´ (Translation: ´I certainly have a handsome son. And thank God I am as proud of his physical appearance as I am of his moral character. But you too have a father who does not waste his time. After defeating a King of Naples, he is now making a King of Greece, as you can see from the two letters I am sending you´), and continues ´Je suis cloué à Naples, mon cher enfant, non seulement pour y faire et défaire des rois mais parce que j'y vis sans toucher à rien à mon revenu de Paris qui sert à payer ces horribles corbeaux qu'on appelle des créanciers - et encore si c'étaient des créanciers à qui je dusse. Mais je crois tout au contraire que ce sont des créanciers qui me doivent´ (Translation: ´I am stuck in Naples, my dear child, not only to make and unmake kings, but because I live there without touching any of my income from Paris, which is used to pay those horrible vultures called creditors - and if only they were creditors to whom I owed money. But I believe, on the contrary, that they are creditors who owe me´). Dumas also writes of his planned exploits, displaying a certain amount of bravura, ´Aussitôt que nous allons avoir révolutionné le prince Scanderberg et moi les îles Ioniennes, l'Albanie, la Thessalie, la Macédoine et les Sporades, je t’écrirai, soit de la patrie d'André Chénier, soit de la patrie de Pyrrhus, soit de la patrie d'Alexandre soit de la patrie d'Achille, soit de la patrie de Pythagore pour te donner de mes nouvelles et de celles de mon nouveau peuple´ (Translation: ´As soon as Prince Scanderberg and I have revolutionised the Ionian Islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia and the Sporades, I will write to you, either from the homeland of André Chénier, or from the homeland of Pyrrhus, or from the homeland of Alexander, or from the homeland of Achilles, or from the homeland of Pythagoras, to give you news of myself and of my new people´) and further makes reference to a friend, ´Je suis à chercher bien inutilement dans mon esprit en quoi j'ai pu faire du chagrin à Mme Gaud. Ce serait bien à contre-coeur car Dieu merci s'il y a quelqu'un que j'aime de tout mon cœur c'est elle. Seulement elle est un peu déçue par moi qui suis bonhomme et qui ne sait écrire que des lavis des drames et des comédies tandis qu'elle, elle écrit des lettres qui feraient faire enrager madame de Sévigné. Si elle les lisait´ (Translation: ´I am searching in vain in my mind for anything I may have done to cause Mrs Gaud grief. It would be very much against my will, for thank God, if there is anyone I love with all my heart, it is she. Only she is a little disappointed in me, who am a good man but can only write sketches of dramas and comedies, while she writes letters that would make Madame de Sévigné enraged. If she read them´). Dumas concludes in warm and affectionate terms, encouraging his son to get better and better, and not work too hard, and sends ´Mille bonnes tendresses comme notre cœur savent si bien les garder que nos bouches ne savent comment les dire´ (Translation: ´A thousand tender kisses, which our hearts know so well how to keep that our mouths cannot express´). A letter of delightful content illustrating Dumas´ larger than life character, and displaying his energy, his enthusiasm, the castles in the air he never stopped building, his debts, his works and, above all, his perpetual good humour, which ultimately took none of this seriously. Some light creasing and minor age wear to the edges, otherwise VGAlexandre Dumas Fils (1824-1895) French author and playwright.In March 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as its King. Dumas travelled there and for the next three years participated in the movement for Italian unification. He founded and led a newspaper, Indipendente, and while there, also befriended Giuseppe Garibaldi. The writer had long admired Garibaldi, with whom he shared a commitment to liberal republican principles as well as membership within Freemasonry. Dumas returned to Paris in 1864, when he published travel books about Italy.
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DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). A wonderful A.L.S., Al. Dumas, three pages, 8vo, n.p. (Naples), 10th November (1862), to his son, in French. Dumas commences his letter declaring ´Certainement que j'ai un joli fils. Et j'en suis Dieu merci aussi fier au physique qu'au moral. Mais toi aussi tu as un père qui ne perd pas son temps. Après avoir défait un roi de Naples, le voilà qui fait un roi de Grèce comme tu peux le voir par les deux lettres que je t'envoie´ (Translation: ´I certainly have a handsome son. And thank God I am as proud of his physical appearance as I am of his moral character. But you too have a father who does not waste his time. After defeating a King of Naples, he is now making a King of Greece, as you can see from the two letters I am sending you´), and continues ´Je suis cloué à Naples, mon cher enfant, non seulement pour y faire et défaire des rois mais parce que j'y vis sans toucher à rien à mon revenu de Paris qui sert à payer ces horribles corbeaux qu'on appelle des créanciers - et encore si c'étaient des créanciers à qui je dusse. Mais je crois tout au contraire que ce sont des créanciers qui me doivent´ (Translation: ´I am stuck in Naples, my dear child, not only to make and unmake kings, but because I live there without touching any of my income from Paris, which is used to pay those horrible vultures called creditors - and if only they were creditors to whom I owed money. But I believe, on the contrary, that they are creditors who owe me´). Dumas also writes of his planned exploits, displaying a certain amount of bravura, ´Aussitôt que nous allons avoir révolutionné le prince Scanderberg et moi les îles Ioniennes, l'Albanie, la Thessalie, la Macédoine et les Sporades, je t’écrirai, soit de la patrie d'André Chénier, soit de la patrie de Pyrrhus, soit de la patrie d'Alexandre soit de la patrie d'Achille, soit de la patrie de Pythagore pour te donner de mes nouvelles et de celles de mon nouveau peuple´ (Translation: ´As soon as Prince Scanderberg and I have revolutionised the Ionian Islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia and the Sporades, I will write to you, either from the homeland of André Chénier, or from the homeland of Pyrrhus, or from the homeland of Alexander, or from the homeland of Achilles, or from the homeland of Pythagoras, to give you news of myself and of my new people´) and further makes reference to a friend, ´Je suis à chercher bien inutilement dans mon esprit en quoi j'ai pu faire du chagrin à Mme Gaud. Ce serait bien à contre-coeur car Dieu merci s'il y a quelqu'un que j'aime de tout mon cœur c'est elle. Seulement elle est un peu déçue par moi qui suis bonhomme et qui ne sait écrire que des lavis des drames et des comédies tandis qu'elle, elle écrit des lettres qui feraient faire enrager madame de Sévigné. Si elle les lisait´ (Translation: ´I am searching in vain in my mind for anything I may have done to cause Mrs Gaud grief. It would be very much against my will, for thank God, if there is anyone I love with all my heart, it is she. Only she is a little disappointed in me, who am a good man but can only write sketches of dramas and comedies, while she writes letters that would make Madame de Sévigné enraged. If she read them´). Dumas concludes in warm and affectionate terms, encouraging his son to get better and better, and not work too hard, and sends ´Mille bonnes tendresses comme notre cœur savent si bien les garder que nos bouches ne savent comment les dire´ (Translation: ´A thousand tender kisses, which our hearts know so well how to keep that our mouths cannot express´). A letter of delightful content illustrating Dumas´ larger than life character, and displaying his energy, his enthusiasm, the castles in the air he never stopped building, his debts, his works and, above all, his perpetual good humour, which ultimately took none of this seriously. Some light creasing and minor age wear to the edges, otherwise VGAlexandre Dumas Fils (1824-1895) French author and playwright.In March 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as its King. Dumas travelled there and for the next three years participated in the movement for Italian unification. He founded and led a newspaper, Indipendente, and while there, also befriended Giuseppe Garibaldi. The writer had long admired Garibaldi, with whom he shared a commitment to liberal republican principles as well as membership within Freemasonry. Dumas returned to Paris in 1864, when he published travel books about Italy.
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