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[tenlittlebullets]

Montreuil-sur-Mer tomorrow! Any photo/research requests?

This afternoon was kind of disgustingly gorgeous--cool in the shade, warm in the sun, windy and intermittently cloudy, and the trees are starting to go into flower. And I managed to be inside whenever it started raining. I love spring weather. Walked along the Seine from the eastern end of Paris (a bit past Bercy) to Saint-Michel, where I predictably went to Gibert Jeune and spent too much money on books.

Haul:
- La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (George Sand) - already read it, but I bought Consuelo in the exact same bookstore from the exact same used books rack two years ago, and I didn't have a copy of Comtesse de Rudolstadt, so I couldn't resist
- Corinne (Mme de Staël)
- Armance (Stendhal)
- Méditations poétiques (Lamartine)

So, I guess apart from the Sand it was an early-Romanticism kick, except I honestly didn't set out to do that. It was just what they had for cheap.

And now I get to choose what to take on the train to Montreuil-sur-Mer. Oh boy. Armance is probably too short for a train ride... Corinne? Père Goriot? Faust? Vidocq's memoirs?

(It occurs to me that if I ever have a kid, I'm going to have to teach her French so that she can raid my library. And feel properly pleased with herself when she stumbles upon the naughty books.)

Comments

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

"stumbles upon"? I thought you were only buying the naughty books :)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Unless you consider George Sand 'naughty books,' nope, the naughty is a small part of the collection.

(I really need to scan the illustrations to Gamiani ou deux nuits d'excès sometime--there is nothing more horrifying than 1830s porn. It's like the fashion plates, only with fewer clothes!)

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

there is nothing more horrifying than 1830s porn. It's like the fashion plates, only with fewer clothes!

Oh, dear god, no! I second this.

Also, to me Faust seems ideal for a train ride.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, no need to scan, I found some of them online!

...uh.

(SO NSFW)

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

Is he wearing rouge? And he seems so surprised by lady parts in his face.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I have an edition of the book with maybe a dozen of these illustrations, and most of them are WORSE than that. And some of them are scarring and would probably get me banned from LJ if I posted them.