“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”
Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.
Marginalia note, first edition of La Chartreuse de Parme (1840)
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Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.
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