1875 The Romance of a Poor Young Man

Description: The Marquis d'Hauterive; or, The romance of a poor young man. FEUILLET, Octave. Published by James Miller, NY 1875 THE ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OCTAVE FEUILLET. New York: James Miller, Publisher, 1875. Rare. From the Text: "This is the second night I have passed in this wretched chamber, gazing with vacant eyes into the empty fireplace, listening unconsciously to the noises inthe street, a feeling more lonelin this great city, more desolate and despairing than the shipwrecked mariner on his piece of plank in mid-ocean. Away with this weakness! I will look my destiny in the face, and thus deprive it of its spectral air! I will also open my heart to the only confident whose pity will not offend me, to this last friend whom I see in my looking-glass. I will write my thought, and my life, not with a puerite minuteness, but without any serious omission and especially without falsehood. I will love this journal; it shall be liek a fraternal echo which shall delude my solitude, and it shall be at the same time a second conscience warning me to do nothing of which I cannot write with a firm hand. I now recall with a sad eagerness a thousand incidents in my life, the meaning of which I should have understood long ago, had not my eyes been shut by filial respect, and the indifference of a hapy idleness. The constant and profound melancholy of my mother to explained to me;I also understand her distaste of the world and her simple dress, the object of so much raillery and even anger on my father's part: "You look like a servant,' he once said to her. Our domestic like was often disturbed by serious disputes between y father and mother, thought I was never an actual witness of them. His irritated and imperious tones, and my mother's supplicating voice in reply, and her stifled sobs, were all I could hear. I attributed these quarrels to my father's violent and fruitless effort to reawaken in my mother a taste for scenes of gayety and display which she had once loved as much as one fo her gentle nature could love them, but into which she accompanied my father wtih more and more repugnance..." Octave Feuillet (August 11, 1821 – December 29, 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he served in the St Louis Hospital. Beginning in 1824, he contributed literary articles, the Premier lundis of his collected Works, to the newspaper Globe, and in 1827 he came, by a review of Victor Hugo's Odes et ballads, into close association with Hugo and the Cénacle, the literary circle that strove to define the ideas of the rising Romanticism and struggle against classical formalism. Sainte-Beuve became friendly with Hugo after publishing a favourable review of the author's work but later had an affair with Hugo's wife, which resulted in their estrangement. Curiously, when Sainte-Beuve was made a member of the French Academy in 1845, the ceremonial duty of giving the reception speech fell upon Hugo Sainte-Beuve published collections of poems and the partly autobiographical novel Volupté in 1834. His articles and essays were collected the volumes Port-Royal and Portraits littéraires. During the rebellions of 1848 in Europe, he lectured at Liège on Chateaubriand and his literary circle. He returned to Paris in 1849 and began his series of topical columns, Causeries du lundi ('Monday Chats') in the newspaper, Le Constitutionnel. When Louis Napoleon became Emperor, he made Sainte-Beuve professor of Latin poetry at the Collège de France, but anti-Imperialist students hissed him, and he resigned. After several books of poetry and a couple of failed novels, Sainte-Beuve began to do literary research, of which the most important publication resulting is Port-Royal. He continued to contribute to La Revue contemporaine. Port-Royal (1837–1859), probably Sainte-Beuve's masterpiece, is an exhaustive history of the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris. It not only influenced the history of religious belief, i.e., the method of such research, but also the philosophy of history and the history of esthetics. He was made Senator in 1865, in which capacity he distinguished himself by his pleas for freedom of speech and of the press. According to Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, "Sainte-Beuve was a clever man with the temper of a turkey!" In his last years, he was an acute sufferer and lived much in retirement. One of Sainte-Beuve's critical contentions was that, in order to understand an artist and his work, it was necessary to understand that artist's biography. Marcel Proust took issue with this notion and refuted it in a set of essays, Contre Sainte-Beuve ("Against Sainte-Beuve"). Proust developed the ideas first voiced in those essays in À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)." See photos for condition details.

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