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ah that bit in every Romanticist bio where we gotta get the who's who as the author sees it (all this is from the Fourth Musketeer)
At the Café de Paris, on the boulevard, Alexander breathed the air of the great world. There the celebrities of journalism, literature, and dandyism met.
...this gets long
That man with the warlike hat and blinking eyes' is Nestor Roqueplan who has now left his garret, his washbasin-clock and his pistols-candelabra for the comfortable offices of the Figaro.
OK was this before/after/during its time as an anti-Romanticist paper??
Next him is Jules Janin, who looks comfortably rotund but thinks only of snapping at his neighbor, and who will later fight a duel with Dumas about a wretched question of dramatic criticism.
JULES JANIN DUELED ALEX DUMAS??
...JULES JANIN DUELES ALEX DUMAS AND LIVED?!?
That fellow by way of being a gentleman, dressed with the correctness of an English lord in a blue coat with gold buttons, a yellow waistcoat, and pearl-gray trousers, is the husband of Marie Dorval, Merle, one of the legitimist party, an epicure and an authority on gastronomy.
..wait, isn't that outfit a Werther cosplay? Am I getting the colors wrong?
. . Over at the long table, orating in a high voice, with his face awkwardly swathed in an enormous neckcloth to hide certain unpleasant scars, is Veron, nicknamed the Prince of Wales, actually the manager of the Revue de Paris, who pays Dumas royally, at least for the time being. With his high color, his greedy lips that look as if they were smeared with jam, and his gluttonous eyes, he seems at once an abbot of former times and a comedy valet.
This guy is way more important than you'd guess by how little he shows up in histories! Also he got his start in patent medicine, which is really jumping out at me post-Blue Castle read!
That tall, thin, dark man, with hair cut brush-shaped and a prominent nose, wearing a velvet caftan and a cap lined with martin fur, is Adolphe de Leuven, librettist of the Postillon de Lonjumeau, who launched Alexander. By his side, flaunting a magnificent kidskin waistcoat and whirling his rhinoceros cane, is handsome Roger de Beauvoir, with a mop of curly black hair, the only one of Alexander's friends who is an aristocrat of wealth-Beauvoir who entertains six hundred people at the Hôtel de Pimodan, and who has just challenged Balzac for accusing him of being named neither Roger nor Beauvoir. Although Balzac took the trouble to send him "forty pages of excuses," the dandy will listen to nothing and proclaims: "I scorn M. de Balzac's prose, I want only his skin!"
holy shit Balzac you messed up??
Here is Eugène Sue, very smart in his sea-green coat, with a rather vulgar turn of the nose that detracts from his good looks. Last, simpler and jollier than the rest, is that good fellow Méry who passes for a librarian at Marseilles, but who is always off on a lark to Paris; an amazing improviser who can compose correctly an act of a classical tragedy within two hours, and in the drawing-rooms describe the tortures of hell so vividly that the ladies beg for mercy.
Fun new party game: Describe the tortures of hell!
Near these gentlemen, but on a lower plane, the madmen appear. "He who was Gannot" and has made himself God under the name Mapah, is a fop and a billiard player now fallen on evil days who sends out manifestos signed "By Our Apostolic Ruin."
The Mahpah is one of the wildest ...visionaries? religious ...somethings? movement leaders? of the time, love seeing him get mentioned (Wiki) (Nonbinary wiki)
Jean Journet, called the Apostle, goes about dressed as a begging friar and sells his verses unfailingly entitled "Songs" or "Cries."
...I have no idea who this is . Sounds like he's coping with poverty very artistishly.
Poor Petrus Borel imagines himself to be a wolf; at his house Alexander has eaten cream from a skull. . . .
excuse you he never said he was a wolf
he said he was a werewolf
and no one actually disagreed
also man,you serve ice cream in skulls ONE time...
...you might see (Dumas) in the rue Grange-Batelière, in the salon of the dancer Marie Taglioni, "the sylph of sylphs," or at Delphine de Girardin's on the days when she recited her poems. But Alexander always grew sentimental near "the Muse" and asked her to receive him in private. "I love you," he said, "with an affection too selfish to share you with the world." Then, when they were alone together, she would interrupt him with questions about dramatic art. "Do tell me how one writes for the theater?" Dumas laughed at what he called "the naïveté of genius."
He was attractive to women, there was no doubt of that, even to the most distrustful of them. When Sainte-Beuve, who was fond of playing the rôle of intermediary, proposed to introduce Alfred de Musset to George Sand, she answered: "I don't want you to bring Alfred de Musset. He's too much of a dandy, we should never get along together. . . . Instead of him, do bring Alexander Dumas, in whose art I have found a soul, exclusive of his talent." Alexander came and Sand took a great liking to him.
Wow, imagine if George Sand had ever hung out with Musset
What a disaster that would have been huh
in that alternate world ><
#place names!#people!#too many to tag#alexandre dumas#Dumas#Delphine Girardin#George Sand#Petrus Borel#French Romantics
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Leurs goûts en littérature. — C’est à la douce influence des femmes que nous devons les horreurs à la mode. Ces adorables créatures aiment les crimes, les descriptions détaillées des lieux infâmes ; on les sert selon leur goût. Vous criez contre les auteurs et contre les journalistes ; est-ce leur faute s’ils sont forcés de vous offrir de telles peintures ? Ils avaient tous commencé par de riants tableaux, on ne les a point regardés : alors il leur a bien fallu chercher d’autres sujets pour attirer les yeux.
Delphine Girardin, LES PARISIENNES
#if you like gothic horror:it’s women’s taste you hve to thank for it#x)#delphine girardin#le diable à paris
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Business is other people's money.
— Delphine de Girardin
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Mais… Pourquoi dans mon cœur ces subites alarmes ?..
Si notre amour tous deux nous trompait sur mes charmes ;
Si j’étais laide enfin ? Non… il s’y connaît mieux !
D’ailleurs pour m’admirer je ne veux que ses yeux !
Ainsi de mon bonheur jouissons sans mélange :
Oui, je veux lui paraître aussi belle qu’un ange.
Le bonheur d’être belle, Delphine de Girardin
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Take flight, angel of poetry:
Spread wide your wings of fire unto
The warrior who had chosen me,
Carry my heart's avowal, you
Whose help I now implore. Go fill
With flame that ardent soul of his:
Tell him not of my love; but still,
Let him feel how much loved he is.
Fly to his side and imitate
My timid voice; pray let him hear
How tenderly my soul would wait
On such a noble cavalier.
It is for love that one succeeds!
And love it is that will impart
His triumph, if he knows his deeds
Ring, valorous, in another's heart.
Bear him my lyre's sweet melodies,
And the first troth I swore; and all
My hopes for him; and, if it please,
May your pure azure sash recall
The clothes I wear. Sing him each line
My woes, fears, this sad smile of mine,
And all the things he loved me for.
May the chords that enraptured us
Delight his ear; may your wings' grace
Waft him those fragrant, glorious
Roses that rendered fair my face.
Hidden beneath a cloud of light,
Protect him there, his slumber taking;
Show him my image, that he might
Call out my name upon his waking.
The Angel of Poetry by Delphine Gay de Girardin (Translated by Norman R. Shapiro)
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L'instruction pour les femmes, c'est le luxe ; le nécessaire, c'est la séduction.
- Delphine de Girardin, author and literary salon hostess to Balzac and Hugo
#girardin#delphone de girardin#quotes#manners maketh woman#salon#femme#beauty#seduction#cate blanchett#manners#men#relationships
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La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac est un roman de la femme de lettres et journaliste française Delphine de Girardin.
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Victor Hugo
Nocturnal vision
Ink and watercolor heightened with gold on paper
Signed Victor Hugo, situated Jersey, monogrammed, dated and dedicated on the mount Aux pieds de Madame Delphine de Girardin / V.H. / Marine Terrace 1er janvier 1855
Sotheby’s
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(I had to Disgruntle a cat away from the keyboard to ask XD, but: Bahorel , Prouvaire, and let's go with Madi?:D
Hee thank you! Also hi Catte!! I'll make separate posts for each, since this is already quite long.
Bahorel
Headcanon:
Tried non-violent protest at Lallemand's funeral, found the state violence and the complicity of his law professors/prosecution horrifying and takes delight in riots and revolutions because of that, non-violence doesn't work. Has lost friends/relatives to state violence and/or poverty which is itself a kind of violence.
That is why his parents also respect his doing nothing except revolution. They may have had instances/reminders of state violence that hit close to home. They may have lost a son, or a niece or nephew because child mortality in those days was high and they were peasants and could not afford better treatments at a point of time in their lives even if they are rich/well off now and have abundant money to spend. Although there's definitely a thing where even if they have money, they and also Bahore will not be able to be accepted by/belong to the rich classes and they don't want to. Bahorel takes pride in their being peasants. He never forgets his roots.
2) Has been greatly influenced by the women in his life, so I always assume that he has at least one or two older sisters who were involved in his upbringing and in helping with the farm and he was close to them and also really listens to and admires his mistress sincerely, who is very independent and who smokes, shoots a pistol and rides a horse, or someone like Delphine Gay Girardin.
Heartcanon: Comes across as extremely ridiculous/over the top, but has a deep sincerity about it. For instance he wears scarlet waistcoats with the specific intent to appall the bourgeoisie. Ever since that article which talked about how Petit Cenacle fashion was subversive confirmed my ideas, he absolutely uses fashion in a subversive manner and to make a statement, along with Prouvaire. He manages to turn everything he wears into something that looks extremely good on him and also makes him look hot.
Has also been arrested multiple times just for walking the streets wearing something scandalous, sporting an illegal tan, annoying neighbours with musical instruments he did not know how to play, naked orgies and generally for just existing as a loud Republican and Romantic who cannot tone down anything about himself and why should he? He has always been Eccentric in that way (and I use that term in the way it was known at that time, with bourgeois society frowning on originality and eccentricity), which is why Prouvaire (and his specific brand of weird) and him get along so very well.
Also really while he may not be a poet like Prouvaire, is really interested in words and maybe has written some minor things of his own, which he is not interested in publishing because censorship laws under Charles X weren't great, maybe he has helped other people publish things via contacts/newspaper links. At least I don't think he is a terrible writer. And he is very much someone who is a thoughtful reader and read a lot as a child as a form of rebellion at school given texts- although that may have been only a handful of books available to them at the time as a peasant family with many kids.
He is associated with using 'words which break everything' and also writing ballads and caricatures of professors in his law class when he could be bothered to attend them, that to me, speaks of someone skilled with words and since he has been in Paris 1820 onwards has probably written or talked about things in some capacity, maybe even was a leader of an even tinier splinter group which joined to form les amis.
He's so much associated with disruptions/challenge to norms of society/grotesque every time he appears/does something and I love that, so much.
Gutcanon: He knows English and French yet will always switch to his native dialect when dealing with authority figures/criticisms by Academie if he ever came across them (because he knows Dumas and Hugo and all the French Romantic writers), to simply thumb his nose at the idea that French should be the main language of France.
Alternatively, he serves as a point of introduction reference to other political workers from the Midi not just because of his nature of finding and talking to people and his flaneuring qualities but also because he takes an interest in their dialects and may know a little bit how to converse in different dialects and so they feel more at ease sharing their thoughts after being new to Paris. Not every worker would have had the opportunity to learn French if they didn't get a chance to finish school, some, whose biographies have survived, were self taught like Feuilly.
Junkcanon: Has very much participated in Romantic naked orgies and lived as a polycule/throuple/with multiple partners including some of his friends, which causes the police to assume that him and all his friends are all very queer, which is not wrong. Is not shy discussing these things/has a sense of humour which leads to dirty jokes.
Spleencanon: Bahorel turns into an immortal werewolf instead of being killed at the barricades and is being referenced by the survivors/revolutionaries in 1848 along with Feuilly's Vivent les peuples and then in 1871 and later.
Or Everyone lives AU where Bahorel practically adopts Gavroche as his younger brother and looks after him, and teaches him new things, and his siblings also hang out with them and the Thenardier kids are all warm and happy.
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Day 264 — Freethinker
Victor Hugo's religious views changed radically over the course of his life. In his youth and under the influence of his mother, he identified as a Catholic and professed respect for Church hierarchy and authority. From there he became a non-practising Catholic and increasingly expressed anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views.
He frequented spiritism during his exile (where he participated also in many séances conducted by Madame Delphine de Girardin) and in later years settled into a rationalist deism similar to that espoused by Voltaire.
A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, "No. A Freethinker".
Photo: Victor Hugo (detail), by Auguste Rodin, c. 1917, Legion of Honor Museum
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Constance de Salm (technically a princess through her marriage to a German aristocrat) was one of the most respected female intellectuals of her day, and an inspiration for many romanticist women. That role, and the personal relationships that bound many women struggling for respect in the male-dominated cultural world, are evoked in this handwritten note to her from Sophie Gay, herself becoming by this point a prominent writer and, through her salon, one of the most influential organisers of Liberal culture in Paris; in turn her daughter Delphine Gay (later Girardin) was one of radical Romanticism's most ardent supporters, and would play a big role in the "Battle of Hernani" a couple years after this note.
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Les Parisiennes ont beaucoup plus de courage que les Parisiens : on avouera cela un jour. Regardez la rue, un jour d’orage : les hommes passent en cabriolet, les femmes s’en vont à pied dans l’eau et dans la boue. Sur dix passants, il y a huit femmes. Ce ne sont point des élégantes, non, sans doute ; mais ce sont de braves mères de famille laborieuses, qui courent pour affaires, des ouvrières consciencieuses qui reportent leur ouvrage à l’heure dite, des gardes-malades qui rejoignent un lit de douleur, de jeunes filles artistes qui regagnent leur atelier. Ceci est un indice infaillible ; vous ne risquez jamais de vous tromper en vous intéressant à la femme que vous voyez courir dans la rue par une averse. Le motif qui la fait sortir par ce temps-là méritera toujours votre intérêt et quelquefois votre admiration.
Delphine Girardin, le courage des parisiennes
#let’s see where this goes!! 👀#delphine girardin#le diable à paris#no illus on this one sadly#french romantics#historical women
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Quel bonheur d’être belle, alors qu’on est aimée !
Autrefois de mes yeux je n’étais pas charmée ;
Je les croyais sans feu, sans douceur, sans regard,
Je me trouvais jolie un moment par hazard.
Maintenant ma beauté me paraît admirable.
Je m’aime de lui plaire, et je me crois aimable....
Il le dit si souvent ! Je l’aime, et quand je voi
Ses yeux, avec plaisir, se reposer sur moi,
Au sentiment d’orgueil je ne suis point rebelle,
Je bénis mes parens de m’avoir fait si belle !
Le bonheur d’être belle, Delphine de Girardin
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"Those we mourn are not the absent, they are the invisible [...] Why deny the evidence? Yes, it is natural that spirits exist." Victor Hugo is in exile on the island of Jersey when his friend Delphine de Girardin initiates him to table-turning in 1853. For two years, Hugo and his relatives question the tables, trying to communicate with the dead. You can read the entire "Je vois de la Lumière noire" story, starting with whose death prompted his profound interest for spiritism on the blog. Just type "Hugo" in the search bar. ∞ I took this photograph while holding my Fleur de Poussière pendulum in Victor Hugo's Parisian flat. . . . . #underthepyramids #portablemagick #fleurdepoussiere #pendulum #dowsing #dowsingpendulum #darkaesthetic #VictorHugo #spiritism #occultism (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9INNX9n2wx/?igshid=14fb3m2p2x0e7
#underthepyramids#portablemagick#fleurdepoussiere#pendulum#dowsing#dowsingpendulum#darkaesthetic#victorhugo#spiritism#occultism
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L'instruction pour les femmes, c'est le luxe ; le nécessaire, c'est la séduction.
- Delphine de Girardin, author and literary salon hostess to Balzac and Hugo
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La Croix de Berny est un roman d'amour écrit en commun par Delphine de Girardin, Théophile Gautier, Jules Sandeau et Joseph Méry.
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