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| Letter from Victor Hugo to Louise Bertin, 22nd May 1835 | |||||||
| On
22nd May 1835 Victor Hugo wrote to Louise Bertin
mentioning the 'voiture de cartes'.
In English, roughly: 'When I want to remember the sweet and well-spent days, among the sweetest and best-spent of my life, I go and meditate for a few moments in my living-room, in front of the little voiture de cartes that we made together. It is our masterpiece so far, while we wait for Notre Dame.' At this time Louise Bertin was 30 years old. The reference to 'Notre Dame' is to her opera 'La Esmerelda' for which Victor Hugo had written the libretto, based on his novel 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'. There are two other mentions of Hugo and Bertin building things with cards in previous letters from 1832. These are supportive of an interpretation of 'la petite voiture de cartes' as La Voiture de Cartes and so I have included them in fgull at ther foot of this page. **********
********** Letter dated 22nd May 1835
********** Letter dated 22nd October 1832
********** Letter dated 30th October 1832
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