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with Franconi, and sauntering when I am at work into their sawdust greenroom ». 1bid., p. 126,
Page 24, note-1 : J, Forster, ouvrage cité, pp. 123 et 147-49. Page 24, note 2 : Ibid., p. 132.
Page 24, note 3 : « They met again with the author of the History of the Girondins at the hospitable table of M. Pichot, to whom L martine had expressed a strong desire agaîn to meet Dickens as « un des grands amis de son imagination ». Zbid., p. 133.
Page 24, note 4 : « He informed the company at dinner that he had rarely met a foreigner who spoke French s0 easily as your Inimitable correspondent, whereat your correspondent blushed modestly, and almost immediately afterwards so nearly choked himself with the bone of a fowl (which is still in his throat) that he sat in torture for ten minutes with a strong apprehension that he was going to make the good Pichot famous by dying like the little Hunchback at his table ». Zbid., p. 134.
Page 24, note 5 : Voir la note dans laquelle il annonce à Mme Viardot l’envoi régulier des fascicules mensuels de Little Dorrit : « I have had such delight in your great genius and have s0 high an interest in it and admiration of it, that I am proud of the honour of giving you a moment’s intellectual pleasure ». Lettre du 3 décembre 1855, éd. citée. II, p. 129.
Page 24, note 6 : Lettre du 20 janvier 1856 à W.-E. Macready, citée par R. Pontavice du Heussey, ouvrage cité, p. 311.
Page 24, note 7 : « I suppose it to be impossible to imagine anybody more unlike my preconceptions than the illustrious Sand. Just the kind of woman in appearance whom you might suppose to be the queen’s monthly nurse. Chubby, matronl!y, swarthy, black-eyed... A singularly ordinary woman in appearance and manner». Lettre à J. Forster, janvier 1856, ouvrage cité, V, p. 137.
Page 25, note 1 : Lettre à J. Forster, fin décembre 1855, citée par R. Pontavice du Heussey, ouvrage cité, p. 305.
Page 25, note 2 : « And even now I have forgotten to set down hajf of it — in particular the item of a far larger plum pudding than ever was seen in England at Christmas time, served with a celestial sauce in colour like the orange blossom, and insubstancelike the blossom powdered and bathed in dew, and called in the carte : Hommage à l’illustre écrivain d’Angleterre ». Lettre à J. Forster, fin décembre 1855, ouvrage cité, V, p. 139.
Page 25, note 3 : Zbid., pp. 140-141.
Page 25, note 4 : « À remarkable body of men, wild, dangerous, and pictures que ». Lettre à J. Forster, Janvier 1856, ibid., p. 142.
Page 26, note 1 : « It was cold this afternoon, as bright as Italy, and these Elysian Fields crowded with carriages, riders and foot passengers. All the fountains were playing, all the Heavens shining. Just as I went
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in the morning to exercise in the country, came marching back, in the straggling French manner, which is far more picturesque and real than anything you can imagine in that way. Alternately great storms of drums played, and then the most delicious and skiliful bands... All bioused Paris (led by the Inimitable, and à poor cripple who works himself up and down all day ina big-wheeled car) went at quick march down the avenue, in a sort of hilarious dance. If the colours with the golden eagle on the top had only been unfurled, we should have followed them anywhere, in any cause — much as the children follow Punches in the better cause of Comedy. Napoleon on the top of the Column seemed up to the whole thing, I thought ». Lettre à J, Forster, 30 janvier 1856, tbid., pp. 141-142.
Page 27, note 1 : « He is a portly jolly fellow with a fine open face ». Lettre à J. Forster, 26 juin 1853, ibid., p. 97. — Sur les différents séjours de Dickens à Boulogne-sur-Mer, voir tout le chapitre de J. Forsterintitulé : Three summers at Boulogne, 1853, 1854 and 1856, ouvrage cité, V, pp. 93-118.
Page 27, note 2 : « In the moonlight last night, the flowers in the proerty appeared, o Heaven, to be bathing themselves in the sky. You like the property? » « M. Beaucourt, said I, I am enchanted with it ; I am more than satisfied with everything ». « And I sir », said M. Beaucourt, laying his cap upon his breast, and kissing his hand — « I equally ! », ibid., p. 98.
Page 27, note 3 : « Almost every Sunday we have a fête, where there is dancing in the open air, and where immense men with prodigious beards revolve on little wooden horses like Italian irons, in what we islanders call a roundabout, by the hour together ». Lettre à J. Forster, 1853, ibid., p. 101.
Page 28, note 1 : « Among the other sights of the place, there is a pig-market every Saturday, perfectly insupportable in its absurdity. An excited French peasant, male or female, with a determined young pig, is the most amazing spectacle ». Ibid.
Page 28, note 2 : Lettre d’août 1854, citée par R. Pontavice du Heussey, ouvrage cité, p. 280,
Page 28, note 3 : « On the first eruption Beaucourt danced and screamed on the grass before the door ; and when he was more composed, set off with Mne Beaucourt to look at the house from every possible quarter, and, he said, collect the suffrages of his compatriots », Lettre à J. Forster, août 1854, ouvrage cité, V, p. 106.
Page 29, note 1 : « It is a bright, airy, pleasant, cheerful town... It is more pictures que and quaint than half the innocent places which tourists,
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