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1. RM08 Prose passage copied from Henri Conscience’s Le conscrit (The conscript). Ramsgate or Isleworth, between about July and November 1876.

   in note 1:

   ... Gogh knew Scènes de la vie flamande, by Henri Conscience, translated by Léon Wocquier. First serie...

2. 089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.

   in note 3:

   ...lic village, titled De loteling (1850) by Henri Conscience. It recounts the heartrending story of Jan...

   in translation:

   ...ories in the evening, such as Le conscrit by Conscience, and Madame Therèse by Erckmann-Chatrian and...

3. 093 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 7 and Sunday, 8 October 1876.

   in note 7:

   Excerpt from Henri Conscience, Le conscrit (The conscript). Van Gogh left out several passages. A com...

   in translation:

   ...a too, and now that I hear you’re going home with Ma it makes me think of a passage in Conscience:

4. 143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.

   in note 19:

   For Henri Conscience, Le conscrit, see letter 89.

   in translation:

   ...ion, or The conscript by Degroux (or else by Conscience), or his Apothecary, or The large oaks by Dup...

5. 476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.

   in translation:

   ...ings that are in the sentiment of the writer Conscience, for instance. But one must see his Saying gr...

6. 798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.

   in note 13:

   ...described in the novel La maison bleue by Henri Conscience: ‘From either side of its door climbed a...

   in translation:

   ... a book, I can’t remember which one, by Henri Conscience. It’s excessively sentimental if you lik...

   He – Conscience – described a brand-new little house with a bright red slate roof in the full sun...

7. 800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.

   in note 7:

   This refers to the preface to Conscience’s Le conscrit, from which Van Gogh had already copied out ...

   in translation:

   Anyway, Henri Conscience isn’t a perfect writer at all, but here and there, more or less everywhere...

8. 856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.

   in translation:

   ..., are we as brand new as the old Belgian, Henri Conscience? Ah, that’s why I was pleased with the s...

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