Mirbeau, OctaveBiblio.com
Octave MIRBEAUBiblio.com
".vous savez bien qu'il n'y a pas dans mon cur la moindre indifférence. Thadée a du vous dire combien nous avions partagé votre douleur."" Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to Alfred Natanson
190673674Vichy 1906. Fine. Vichy 10 août 1906 11.60 x 18 cm une feuille Moving autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson when he had just lost his father. 18 lines in black ink on a folded sheet envelope included. ""Mon cher Fred Je ne vous ai pas écrit ; mais vous savez bien qu'il n'y a pas dans mon cur la moindre indifférence. Thadée a dû vous dire combien nous avions partagé votre douleur. Thadée a dû vous dire souvent quelle amitié profonde j'ai pour vous. Peut-être ne vous l'ai-je pas exprimée telle que je la sens mais je la sens fortement et je voudrais bien que vous la sentiez aussi un peu. C'est un gros chagrin que de ne plus être aimé de ceux qu'on aime véritablement. Vous allez partir ; et vous faîtes bien de quitter cette maison où durant plus de six mois vous avez assisté à l'horrible agonie de votre pauvre père. Tâchez de travailler pour notre joie à tous. et revenez avec une belle uvre."" ""My dear Fred I have not written to you; but you know well that there is not the slightest indifference in my heart. Thadée must have told you how much we shared your grief. Thadée must have told you often what deep friendship I have for you. Perhaps I have not expressed it to you as I feel it but I feel it strongly and I would very much like you to feel it too a little. It is a great sorrow to no longer be loved by those one truly loves. You are going to leave; and you do well to quit this house where for more than six months you witnessed the horrible agony of your poor father. Try to work for all our joy. and return with a beautiful work."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the group of the Revue Blanche since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was since the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It waged political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown
