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STENDHAL

Lettre autographe adressée à sa soeur Pauline : « Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. »

10 Floréal 13 [30 avril 1805], 18,5x23,1cm, une feuille.

Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name "Pauline" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number "36" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp, a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter.
Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline, in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes.
This letter comes from the correspondence between Henri Bayle, here twenty-two years, with his sister Pauline three years younger. This true epistolary liaison, which quickly took the form of a "diary" - Pauline's answers were rare - is an essential milestone in the constitution of the intellectual journey of the future Stendhal. Our letter, of a great lyricism, testifies to the strength of the bond uniting the young writer and his sister: "Let's shake each other my good friend. We will never find anyone who loves Pauline as Henry, nor will Henry ever find a more beautiful soul than Pauline. "The use of the third person and a lover vocabulary erects the young woman to the rank of alter ego, a sister-soul and even perfect mistress. The young Henri is then precisely under the yoke of a devouring passion for the actress Melanie Guilbert whom he met during his declamation classes at Dugazon: " I'm going to be bored perhaps by my dark sadness. I know very well that the seriousness of ardent passions is not pleasant. "
Contrasting with this passionate relationship, Pauline symbolizes reason and balance, a figure that Henri, like a pygmalion, can fashion at leisure. In good tutor he advises: "Learn by heart roles. About declamation, I will teach you a thousand things. I'm bringing you a Gil Blas, and a Tracy. "We understand here worship Stendhal devoted to the theater from his earliest years, both as a player as a playwright (the fund of its archives to the Grenoble Library contains nearly 700 sheets of blanks):" I am in despair at not being able to wear you Beanies. But wait, maybe someday will come ... as Ulino says. "This passion for theater, Henry intends to pass it to his sister:" We will work like hell during the time that I stay in Grenoble. "In total opposite view with the education of women in his time, he put a point of honor that Pauline is an educated person; In several letters, moreover, we find injunctions from the brother ordering his sister to give up needlework in favor of the reading he recommends. Truly obsessed with theater and convinced that he will become an author of successful comedies, he works tirelessly: "I am told a room where I will not be free, and where I can not just declaim. Try to disturb this arrangement. "Years before writing great novels that make her famous, Stendhal already understands that loneliness is for him a source of creation and says:" A lonely is jealous of his freedom. It is his greatest good as that of all men. "

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