Evidence: | 'Rondeau
On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles.
See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them here uncut, −
Drop them, recoiling, at the first debut −
Lay down the book and with superb disdain,
Smiling but sold, go on my way again
Through life’s green vale, remarking simply “Zut!”
Devoid of style, of fable and of smut,
How, how, shall I portray its dullness? − Tut!
See for yourself − see, whelmed in grief and pain, −
See "The Green Leaves"!
Thus one, sweet-toothed, yet of a tender gut,
Who sees before him many peaches put
In some tall cafe by the shores of Seine,
Schools his bold heart to choose and to refrain:
The ripe he eats with gluttonous ardour − but,
See, the green leaves!'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: Feb 1877 | ||||||||||
Country: | France? | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Paris? | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Uncommitted |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | France? |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Auguste Maquet |
Title: | Les Feuilles Vertes |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1861 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25125 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 202-3 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 465. To W.E. Henley, [? February 1877], [? Paris]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The material in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 202-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25125, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Auguste Maquet (1813-88) is best known as a collaborator in the novels of Dumas père. Les Vertes Feuilles, a historical romance, appeared in 1861. The Editors’ Note 1 to letter 465 says the date given for it is arbitrary but the most likely, and that the letter “may belong to July 1877 or to a return from France to London in 1878.” |
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