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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.c. B (Volume 2); Late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, Senator of Italy, Etc. in Two Volumes
Louis Fagan
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-03.
ISBN 9781154349269
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII Prosper Merimee; Empress Eugenie; Prince Imperial. T would appear to be taking a liberty with the reader--or, indeed, what is far worse, to savour somewhat of bookmaking--to engraft a biography on a biography. We have already promised to give some account of the relations between Panizzi and Prosper Merimee, the well-known writer and French statesman, which account would be incomplete were we to omit some special mention of M£rimée himself. It may be asserted, moreover, that Merimee deserves, on his own intrinsic merit, a place in the memoir of Panizzi. Happily it has been our pleasing task of late to edit the whole of the letters which passed between them during their long friendship, and as nothing affords a better insight into the true character of a man than his familiar epistles to his friends, we shall make so bold as to use these letters as freely as may appear desirable in this short notice of the writer of them. It is much to be regretted that Panizzi's letters to Mrimee have all been destroyed, with the exception of the very few already quoted, copies of which have been found amongst his papers. In the time of the unhappy Commune, on the 23rd of May, 1871, amongst other and more important buildings, MrimeVs house was burnt down, and with it much which would have been most valuable for our present purpose. What has distressed me most, wrote a friend to Panizzi on this calamity, was to see the place where poor MSrimee's house had been! It is a total wreck! All his furniture, his fine library, his manuscripts, his letters, and the thousand souvenirs of a long and intellectual lifetime all reduced to ashes. In conversation one day, Mons. Du Sommerard, of the Hotel Cluny, whose name is frequently mentioned in MerimeVs letters
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