ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. 1790-1869. - Lot 160

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. 1790-1869. To the editor, March 11, 1850. Las 2 p. in-4. About Danton as he describes him in the third volume of the "girondins": Danton was especially pushed to the murder by a more personal and less theoretical cause: his character.... He consented to be the phenomenon of the revolutionary rage. There was vanity in his perfection.... A people that would need to be inebriated with blood to push them to defend their country would be a people of villains and not a people of heroes. Heroism is the opposite of murder. As for the revolution, its prestige was in its justice and in its morality.... " He concludes his letter with "Here Sir in what terms are rehabilitated these Days which are the horror of France and the opprobrium of their authors..." Enclosed a letter from "an enemy of the Girondins" to Monsieur de Lamartine, February 14, 1861. 4 p. in-12. If my homage is thus anonymous, please see no greater proof of its sincerity and disinterestedness...