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following their leaders like sheep, have made impostors of ;.. with its uphill streets, house rising above house, and terrace above terrace, and bright garments here and there lying sunning on rough stone parapets.…., with a pleasant mist on all such objects, caused by their being seen through the brown nets hung across on poles to dry». Our French Watering-Place, dans Reprinted Pieces, by Charles Dickens, Illustrated, Chapman and Hall, n.d., pp. 32-36. C’est à cette édition que nous emprun- \terons toutes nos citations de Dickens, en dehors de sa correspondance.
Page 29, note 2 : « Good M. Loyal! Under blouse or waistcoat, he carries one of the gentlest hearts that beat in a nation teeming with gentle people ». Ibid., p. 39.
Page 29, note 3 : « To us, it is not the least pleasant feature of our French watering-place that a long and constant fusion of the two great nations there has taught each to like the other, and to learn from the other, and to rise superior to the absurd prejudices that have lingered among the weak and ignorant in both countries equally ». Ibid., p. 43.
Page 30, note 1 : « The dear old France of my affections ». The Uncommercial traveller, éd. citée., p. 61.
Page 30, note 2 : « The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. A low-lying place and a low-spirited place Calais was, with the tide ebbing out towards low water-mark.., » The Little Dorrit, éd. citée, II, ch: 20, p. 230.
Page 30, note 3 : In the French-Flemish City, dans The Uncommercial Traveller, éd. citée., ch. xxv, pp. 241-242.
Page 30, note 4 : Lettre de 1862, citée par R. Pontavice du Heussey, ouvrage cité, p. 344.
Page 30, note 5 : « Where are the pains in my bones, where are the fidgets in my legs, where is the Frenchman with the nightcap who never would have the little coupé-window down, and who always fell upon me when he went to sleep, and always slept all night snoring onions ? A voice breaks in with « Paris ! » Here we are ». À Flight, dans Reprinted Pieces, éd. citée., p. 140.
Page 31, note 1 : « I do not, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues ». The Reader’s Passport, dans Pictures from Italy, éd. citée, p. 256,
Page 31, note 2 : « What a city Lyons is ! Talk about people feeling, at certain unlucky times, as if they had tumbled from the clouds 1. The houses, high and vast, dirty to excess, rotten as old cheeses, and as thickly peopled ». Lyons.… dans Pictures from Italy, éd. citée, p. 265.
Page 31, note 3 : « The town... was so hot and so intensely light that when I walked out at noon it was like comingsuddenly from the darkened room into crisp blue fire ». Avignon to Genoa, Ibid., p. 275.
Page 31, note 4 : « Dust, dust, dust, everywhere. I am afraid there is no doubt that it is a dirty and disagreeable place... A compound of vile smells perpetually arising from a great harbour full of stagnant water and befouled by the refuse of innumerable ships with all sorts of cargoes ;: which, in hot weather, is dreadful to the last degree ». Jbid. p. 276.
Page 32, note 1 : Il s’agit du passage fameux qui commence par : « The landlady of the Hôtel de l’Écu d’Or is here ; and the landlord of the Hôtel de l’Ecu d’Or is here ; etc. » Going through France, 1bid., pp. 261-265. Ce passage est cité et traduit, par exemple, dans les Pages choisies des grands Ecrivains : Dickens, éditées par B.-H. Gausseron, 1903, pp. 305-309.
Page 33, note 1 : « Mademoiselle, I come from the South Country, where we are quick, and where we like and dislike very strong ». Bleak House, éd. citée., I, ch. XXII, p. 323.
Page 33, note 2 : « My Lady’s maïid is a Frenchwoman of two-and thirty,.. a large-eyed brown woman with black hair; who would be handsome, but for a certain feline mouth, and general uncomfortable tightness of face ;.. she seems to go about like a very neat She-Woif imperfecty tamed ». Zbid., I, ch. x11, pp. 159-160.
Page 34, note 1 : « Why, I r-r-r-ruin my character by remaining with a Ladyship so infame ! » « Upon my soul, I wonder at you ! » Mr. Bucket remonstrates. « Ithought the French were a palite nation, I did, really ».….,
« He is a poor abused ! » cries Mademoiselle, « I spit upon his house, upon .
his name, upon his imbecillity », all of which she makes the carpet represent ». Zbid., II, ch. xxrr1, pp. 299-300.
Page 34, note 2 : « You can do as you please with me, It is but the death, it is all the same. Let us go, my angel. Adieu you old man, grey. I pity you, and I des-pise you ! » Zbid., p. 305.
Page 34, note 3 : « You have known perfectly that I was en-r-r-rraged ». It appears impossible for Mademoiselle to roll the letter r sutficiently in this word, notwithstanding that she assists her energetic delivery by clenching both her hands, and setting all her teeth ». Jbid., p. 147.
Page 34, note 4 : « Frankness is a part of my character... It is my misfortune to be, not so much à man of business as what the world calls (arbitrarily) a gentleman. To slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex sand chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character ». Little Dorrit, éd, citée, I, ch. xxx, pp. 359-361.
Page 35, note 1 : « A gentleman I am, a gentleman lil live, and a gentleman [’ Il die! Its my intent to be a gentleman. It's my game. Death of my soul, I play it out where ver I go ! » Zbid., ch. 1, p. 9.
Page 35, note 2 : « Lam a Knight of Industry, at your service, Madame, but my polished manners had won me so much of success, as a master of languages, among your compatriots, who are as stiff as their own starch is to one another, but are ever ready to relax to a foreign gentleman of polished manners ». Zbid., II, ch. xxx, p. 350.
Page 35, note 3 : « Rigaud Lagnier Blandois, my amiable subject, you will get your money. You will enrich yourself, You have livrä a gentleman; you will die a gentleman. You triumph, my little boy; but it is your character to triumph. Whoof ! » Zbid., p. 369.
Page 35, note 4 : « It was night for the second time when they found the dirty heap of rubbish that had been the foreigner, before his head had been shivered to atoms, like so much glass, by the great beam that lay upon him, crushing him ». Zbid., ch. xxxXI, p. 377.
Page 36, note 1 : « I set myself the little task of making a picturesque story, rising in every chapter, with characters true to nature, but whom the story should express more than they should express themselves by dialogue ». Lettre à J. Forster, avril 1859, ouvrage cité, VI, p. 45.
Page 36, note 2 : « No later enquiries or provings by figures will hold water against the tremendous testimony of men living at the time ». Lettre à J. Forster, ibid., p. 47.
Page 38, note 1 : On sait que Dickens a d’ailleurs reconnu explicitement sa dette et son admiration à la fois envers son grand ami : « It has been one of my hopes to add something to the popular and picturesque means of understanding that terrible time, though no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. Carlyle’s wonderful book ». A Tale of Two Cities, éd. citée, Préface, p. 6. Voir encore dans J. Forster, ouvrage cité, VI, p. 214 : « I would go at all times farther to see Carlyle than any man alive ». D’autre part, on connaît les jugements que Carlyle a portés, en maintes occasions, sur Dickens, entre autres : « À more cordial, sincere, clear-sighted, quietly decisive, just and loving man»; et encore, dans une lettre à J. Forster : « The good, the gentle, highgifted, ever-friendly, noble Dickens, every inch of him an Honest Man ». Ouvrage cité, VI, pp. 208-209. — Sur les emprunts, qui ont été signalés souvent, de Dickens à Carlyle, voir, en particulier : Parisian Scenes from A Tale of Two Cities edited by J.-H. Lobban, Cambridge, 1910, Preface, p. 5 : « The Parisian Scenes from À Tale of Two Cities are Dickens’s rehandling of Carlyle’s material, Only the reader of Carlyle’s French Revolution can fully appreciate Dickens’s skill in the matter of selection and stealing with taste ». Et aussi, Oliver Elton : À Survey of English Literature, 1830-1880, Vol. II, 1920, p. 201 et 214 : « In A T. of T. C., where Dickens is plunging in the wake of Carlyle… In the mob-
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Page 40, note 1 : « He Is a little fanciful in his language : smilingly observing of Mme Loyal when she is absent at vespers that she is gone to her salvation — allée à son salut », Our French Watering-Place, dans Reprinted Pieces, éd. citée., p. 39.
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Page 44, note 1 : « The way in which mysterious Frenchmen call and want to embrace me, suggests to any one who knows me intimately, such infamous lurking, slinking, getting behind doors, evading, lying — somuch mean resort to craven fights, dastardsubterfuges and miserable poltroonery — on my part, that I merely suggest the arrival of cards like this : .. Gregibus Patalanternois, Tête des Beaux-Arts — and I then write letters of terrific empressement, With assurances of all sorts of profound considerations, and never by any chance become visible to the naked eye ». Lettre du 19 janvier 1856 à W. Wilkie Collins, éd. citée, II, p. 139.
Page 44, note 2 : « Every Frenchman who can write a begging letter writes one, and leaves it for this apartment, He first of all buys any literary composition printed in quarto on tea paper with a limp cover, scrawils upon it « Hommage à Charles Dickens, l’illustre Romancier », encloses the whole in a dirty envelope, reeking with tobacco-smoke, and prowis, assassin-like, for days, in a big cloak and an enormous cachenez like a counterpane, about the scraper of the outer door ». Lettre du 12 décembre 1855 à W. Wilkie Collins, Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins, 1851-1870, Selected by Miss G. Hogarth, 1892, p. 44.
Page 44, note 3 : « You cannot think how pleasant it is to me to find myself generally known and liked here. If I go into a shop to buy anything, and give my card, the officiating priest or priestess brightens up, and says : « Ah / c’est l'écrivain célèbre ! Monsieur porte un nom très distingué. Mais { je suis honoré et intéressé de voir Monsieur Dick-in. Je lis un des livres de Monsieur tous les jours » (in the Moniteur). And a man who brought some little vases home last night, said : « On connaît bien en France que Monsieur Dick-in prend sa position sur la dignité de la littérature. Ah { c’est grande chose ! Et ses caractères (this was to Georgina, while she unpacked) sont si spirituellement tournées (sic) ! Celte Madame Tojare (Todgers), ah { qu’elle est drôle et précisément comme une dame que
