Carte-lettre autographe signée à la Comtesse Potocka : « Je me mets à faire des compliments ! C'est grave ! »

Autographed letter-card from Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 16 lines in black ink on a letterhead "GM 83, rue Dulong", envelope attached.
Maupassant replied to his correspondent that he was trying to see: " Yes, certainly, madam, I was even going to go there, always about five o'clock, for Madame Pasca told me that you never came home sooner. Alix-Marie Pasquier, known as Madame Pasca, was a member of the Comedie Francaise, a very close friend of Maupassant and close to Flaubert, accustomed to the Countess Potocka's salon.
Further on, he recalled his recurring boredom: " I warn you that the Reverend Father is not in vain of gaiety. I am bored in an abominable, unbelievable way. Shortly before the writing of this letter (around September-October 1880), Maupassant had traveled to Corsica where he went to see Father Didon, whom he had met via Flaubert. Ecclesiastical mundane, the religious had just been exiled in Corsica for his positions too free. He is famous for having created the new motto of the Olympic Games during his collaboration with Pierre de Coubertin: " Citius, Altius, Fortius (" Faster, Higher, Stronger ") .
This boredom is a recurring feeling in Maupassant. His brilliant mind, overwhelmed by illness, finds, nevertheless, some pleasures: "At last I shall not be bored for an hour now, and that is a great deal. He concludes: " I begin to compliment! It's serious ! "