LAMMENAIS (Félicité de).

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LAMMENAIS (Félicité de).
Words of a believer. Paris, Renduel, 1834. In-8, half plum long-grained morocco with corners, flat spine decorated with a gilt fillet frame, untrimmed (Binding of the period). First edition. Some foxing. An autograph letter signed (F. L.), Paris, August 2, 1844, 4 pages in-12, to a friend to whom he sends his condolences for a bereavement "After so many years of an always common life, even in the distance, to see suddenly these bonds breaking, to feel almost the order established by a will whose Wisdom we adore and by a love in ours is only the shadow". About the recluse life of a friend at the English Ladies', whose boarders can only receive at the gate: "As for me, I have a horror of gates, especially when I have been kept behind them. I left all my health there, that is to say what I had of it. I no longer have a stomach and the stomach is the strength...". He speaks at length about his life, his occupations: "I miss my legs. I miss them much more than Mr. de Chateaubriand, it is a real pity..." etc.
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