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Maxmillian de Bethune Sully : Memoirs

?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or a palace, and I fancied it was somewhere in the middle of Paris. On the contrary, it is quite in the suburbs.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Book

  

Sully : [article on G.H. Lewes]

'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: proof of article

  

Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme : unknown poetry

'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sully Prudhomme to read when I come to you. Soulary better perhaps − better certainly, [italics]comme forme[end italics], but so unsympathetic when compared to Prudhomme in character and thought. Prudhomme is a [italics]good[end italics] man. Fancy! And a modern French poet! Wonders after that will never cease.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Duc de Sully : Memoirs

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with pleasure, as he seems to have an honest, brave, and worthy heart [...] I am reading many other books, but will not trouble you with my thoughts of them till I have read them through.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

  

Maximilien de Bethune de Sully : Memoirs

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining and instructive way, and numberless are the reflections that every page suggests to me.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

 

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