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014 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, between about Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 31 October 1873.
in translation:
...g good and fine things. And now I’ll stop; I’m enclosing another picture of autumn, by Michelet.
Jules Michelet
in note 19:
...longing for autumn) of L’amour (1858) by Jules Michelet, part 5, chapter 5 (see Michelet, L’amour...
Michelet argues that a woman can only really be happy within marriage and under the guidance of the r...
026 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 21 July 1874.
in translation:
Write to me whether you’ve begun reading Michelet and what you think of it. That book was a revelat...
in note 6:
Jules Michelet, L’amour, 1858; cf. letter 27.
027 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 31 July 1874.
in translation:
I’m glad you’ve been reading Michelet and that you really understand it. A book like that at leas...
in note 2:
...ille femme’ is the title of a chapter in Jules Michelet’s L’amour (part 5, chapter 4); the phra...
in note 1:
...indicating that he did not doubt the truth of Michelet’s book. Thus the word ‘gospel’ does not ...
028 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 10 August 1874.
in translation:
...him who dared to say ‘I am the truth’, or against those of some humane person, such as Michelet.
030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.
in translation:
...nt. Also Jesus by Renan and Jeanne d’Arc by Michelet, and also a portrait of Corot, from the Lond...
in note 5:
In Jeanne d’Arc (1853), Jules Michelet described the eventful life of the fifteenth-century maid of...
RM05 Pages sent to Theo with a story addressed to several writers and sundry quotations. Between May and June 1875.
in translation:
Michelet, La mer
in note 7:
Jules Michelet, La mer (The sea), book 1, ‘Un regard sur les mers’ (A look at the seas), chap. 2:...
035 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 June 1875.
in translation:
...f that painting by P. de Champaigne, of which Micheletsaid, ‘she stayed with me for 30 years, comin...
in note 4:
...l’automne’ (The longing for autumn) in Jules Michelet, L’amour (part 5, chapter 5): ‘Cette fe...
045 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 7 September 1875.
in translation:
...im a lot before then. He had read the book by Michelet, ‘L’amour’, and had talked a lot about i...
in note 1:
On Michelet’s L’amour, cf. letter 26, n. 6.
046 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Thursday, 9 September 1875.
in translation:
...our eyes open and try to become strong and resolute. Was that book by Michelet really meant for him?
Read no more Michelet or any other book (except the Bible) until we’ve seen each other again at Chr...
in note 2:
Jules Michelet, L’amour: see letter 26, n. 6.
050 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 25 September 1875.
in translation:
I’m going to get rid of all my books by Michelet &c. &c., you should too.
055 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 11 October 1875.
in note 22:
... chapter ‘Les aspirations de l’automne’ in Jules Michelet’s L’amour. See letter 14, n. 19.
in translation:
...d you to do, have you got rid of the books by Michelet, Renan &c? I believe it will give you peace. Y...
089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
in translation:
Do you perhaps still have that page from Michelet that begins ‘from here I see a lady’? If you do...
in note 39:
...r ‘Les aspirations de l’automne’ fromJules Michelet’s L’amour, see letter 14, n. 19. There ...
090 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between about Saturday, 2 and Friday, 8 September 1876.
in translation:
(Try and send that page from Michelet.)
in note 77:
Vincent had previously asked Theo to send an excerpt from Michelet’s L’amour in letter 89.
094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.
in note 24:
...omne’ in L’amour (part 5, chapter 5). See Michelet, L’amour, pp. 387-396; see also letter 14. V...
in translation:
Michelet, Les aspirations de l’automne.
102 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Wednesday, 7 and Thursday, 8 February 1877.
in translation:
Old boy, send me that page from Michelet again, the one you sent me earlier is in my reading-desk in ...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in translation:
Yesterday I saw a portrait of Michelet and looked at it again closely and thought of ‘his life of i...
in note 44:
...uit à l’étude de la nature’, with which Michelet’s L’oiseau (1856) opens: ‘Work was forbi...
in note 43:
... Van Gogh saw, since a number of portraits of Michelet were in circulation, including a painting by C...
115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
in note 25:
...as an old woman) is the title of a chapter in Michelet’s book L’amour; see letter 27, n. 2. Miche...
in translation:
...tifully and with so much feeling, and I think Michelet does as well in his: there is no such thing as...
131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
in translation:
...and. He treated this subject in the spirit of Michelet or Rückert, or as many have also painted it, ...
132 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 21 October 1877.
in note 25:
Jules Michelet treated the revolutionary period in his extensive Histoire de la Révolution français...
in translation:
...e the time and the inclination, think of that piece by Jules Breton, and that other one by Michelet.
...e they form with many books, such as those by Michelet and Carlyle and also Dickens (Tale of two citi...
...don in the days when I was very wrapped up in Michelet and other French writers, I believe Harry Glad...
in note 8:
...e excerpt ‘Je vois d’ici une dame’ from Michelet’s L’amour, which is mentioned repeatedly i...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...u have the time and the opportunity, think of Michelet, you know what, and J. Breton, but you know wh...
134 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 19 November 1877.
in translation:
...t ploughing with a white horse in the foreground, and it also made me think of Michelet and Carlyle.
135 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 24 and Sunday, 25 November 1877.
in translation:
...ent letter, thanks also for that passage from Michelet, which I’ve written on the back of the map o...
in note 1:
For the passage from Michelet's L’amour, see letter 132, n. 8.
143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
in translation:
... from The odyssey to the books of Dickens and Michelet? And couldn’t one learn something from the w...
...��, ‘Never this unique little village’ by Michelet, it’s because it’s written from the heart ...
in note 5:
... on high’ in letter 368 in a quotation from Michelet. For the related phrase ‘something on high�...
in note 3:
...ourt culture of the seventeenth century, from Michelet’s L’amour: ‘but the universal, agreeable...
in note 2:
Taken from Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution française. 2 vols. Paris n.d., vol. 1, p. 32. ...
in note 33:
...tite ville singulière’ has been taken from Michelet’s La mer (1861), book 1, ‘Un regard sur le...
in note 32:
...e l’automne’ is the title of a chapter in Michelet’s L’amour and ‘Je vois d’ici une dame�...
in note 31:
These three references to Jules Michelet were all taken from his L’oiseau. The first refers to a tr...
144 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 13 May 1878.
in note 23:
Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution Française (1847-1853).
in translation:
...d some beautiful book or other over there, by Michelet, for instance, on the Revolution or something ...
155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
in note 29:
...ut the caged bird could have been inspired by Michelet’s L’oiseau. Cf. Hammacher 1975, esp. pp. 7...
in translation:
... hand rather seriously, such as the Bible and Michelet’s La révolution Française, and then last w...
...speare and something of Correggio or Sarto in Michelet, and something of Delacroix in V. Hugo, and in...
in note 8:
Jules Michelet, L’histoire de la Révolution française. 7 vols. Paris 1847-1853.
180 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 7 November 1881.
in note 5:
..., et non une autre’ (She, and no other), in Michelet’s L’amour (‘Conception’, part 3, chapt...
in note 2:
Van Gogh borrowed this phrase from Jules Michelet, who wrote in the ‘Introduction’ to La femme ab...
181 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 8 or Wednesday, 9 November 1881.
in translation:
Not I but père Michelet says to all young men like you and me, ‘a woman must breathe upon you if y...
in note 11:
Based on Michelet’s L’amour and La femme; see letter 180, n. 2.
in note 8:
Michelet, L’amour, p. 268. It emerges from La femme that the saying is Pierre Proudhon’s: ‘Prou...
in note 3:
Taken from Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 180, n. 5.
183 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.
in note 6:
Taken from Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 180, n. 5. The phrase ‘Love on’, later in the lette...
184 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.
in translation:
But she’s in no way a mistress, that one. Since a lady is a lady, as Michelet says.
in note 7:
...pter ‘Il n’y a point de vieille femme’, Michelet writes: ‘For the rest, a lady is a lady’ (...
in note 1:
In L’amour Jules Michelet speaks of ‘women of marble’ (filles de marbre) as ‘women of sadness...
185 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in note 5:
Van Gogh borrowed ‘her and no other’ from Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 180, n. 5.
186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in translation:
...for example, Pa sees me with a French book by Michelet or V. Hugo in my hand, he thinks of arsonists ...
in note 2:
In La femme Jules Michelet treats the various stages of a woman’s life, arguing that a woman can on...
187 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 19 November 1881.
in translation:
For my part, père Michelet does me a lot of good.
Read Michelet over again!
...refront of modern civilization, for instance, Michelet and Beecher Stowe, Carlyle and George Eliot, a...
...ircumstances.’ You see, in my opinion those are the words that, by and large, Michelet says to us.
...ing in front of a wall that Beecher Stowe and Michelet have torn down in places, and neither Pa nor J...
in note 19:
Taken from Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 180, n. 5.
in note 18:
Cf. the ‘désolation’ passage quoted from Michelet in letter 181, n. 8.
in note 17:
Taken from Michelet’s L’amour and La femme; see letter 180, n. 2. In My wife and I (1872) and it...
in note 3:
In La femme Jules Michelet uses the phrase ‘something that beats under the left breast’ (quelque ...
189 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Wednesday, 23 November 1881.
in note 28:
Taken from Michelet’s La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 67). Van Gogh quotes this sentence again in lette...
in note 25:
In his ‘Introduction’ to L’amour Michelet says: ‘Two people spend less than one. I see many a...
in note 24:
Luke 11:23 and Matt. 12:30. Michelet does not quote these biblical passages literally; Van Gogh me...
in translation:
...at you will benefit much more from re-reading Michelet than from the Bible. And as far as I’m conce...
...aul on the other, and in my opinion Stowe and Michelet are a continuation of the gospel, not a repeti...
Take Michelet and Beecher Stowe, they don’t say, the gospel is no longer valid, but they help us to...
Michelet even says things completely and aloud which the gospel merely whispers to us germinally, an...
Now you, and I too, have already read Michelet once or several times. But now try and read him again!...
... but you, I meanwhile say that if you re-read Michelet’s books again seriously, a kind of inner rev...
... that gathereth not with Me scattereth’, as Michelet would say. Fortunately, Michelet didn’t have...
...er can one be saved, behold one of the things Michelet can say so simply. Sometimes it seems he was d...
in note 12:
In this context see Michelet, who says in his ‘Introduction’ to L’amour: ‘The greatest succes...
in note 7:
Regarding this pronouncement, taken from Michelet’s L’amour and La femme, see letter 180, n. 2.
193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
in note 20:
Taken from Jules Michelet’s L’amour (see letter 27, n. 2).
in translation:
... just as I sometimes read Michelet or Balzac or Eliot, but I see completely diffe...
I recently read Michelet, La femme, la religion et le prêtre. Books like tha...
in note 17:
Taken from Jules Michelet’s L’amour (see letter 181, n. 10).
in note 15:
This phrase was taken from Jules Michelet’s L’amour (see letter 180, n. 2...
in note 14:
...la femme, de la famille (1845) Jules Michelet claims that priests exercise po...
214 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 2 April 1882.
in note 6:
...visited him there and took along a copy of Jules Michelet’s L’amour to give him. See Brieven Brei...
216 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 10 April 1882.
in translation:
as it says in Michelet’s book.
in note 6:
Michelet’s L’oiseau (‘L’hirondelle’): ‘But the heart’s emptiness remains; its emptiness...
in note 3:
...h – abandoned). These words were taken from Michelet’s La femme; ‘délaissé’ is Van Gogh’s...
224 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 7 May 1882.
in note 3:
...clear family, concur with what he had read in Michelet (particularly La femme) and gleaned from Engli...
225 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 May 1882.
in note 1:
Taken from Jules Michelet’s La femme; see letter 189, n. 28.
227 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 May 1882.
in note 6:
...lle, et non une autre’ (She and no other) from Jules Michelet’s L’amour: see letter 180, n. 5.
228 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 16 May 1882.
in note 1:
Based on ‘Elle, et non une autre’ from Jules Michelet, L’amour: see letter 180, n. 5.
241 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 1 July 1882.
in note 2:
This saying is also found in Jules Michelet, La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 268).
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in note 12:
...the sentence before the quotation (see n. 10) Michelet wrote in La femme: ‘Nature has made life a t...
in note 10:
Borrowed from Jules Michelet, La femme, see letter 189, n. 28. See also n. 12 below.
246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
in translation:
... ‘Home’ or ‘hearth and home’. I can understand that Michelet says ‘Woman is a religion’.
in note 5:
...s a religion) is the title of a chapter in Jules Michelet, La femme (part 1, chapter 6). See Michelet...
in note 1:
...uation of the letter, are derived from the views put forward in Michelet’s La femme and L’amour.
294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
in note 6:
...ns pass, but God remains’ Van Gogh means Jules Michelet’s ‘Les dieux passent, et non Dieu’, f...
300 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 January 1883.
in translation:
...ng time’ and ‘I’ll never have it’, as Michelet puts it. So one goes from melancholy to cheerf...
in note 10:
...gh was probably mistaken about the author. Jules Michelet, who had been mentioned just before, includ...
in note 9:
...epuis longtemps et je ne l’aurai jamais), in Jules Michelet’s, La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 331).
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
...ys, singularly, that love is a spider’s web at first and grows to be as strong as a cable.Michelet
Lately I read ‘Le peuple’ by Michelet, or rather I read it some time ago, this winter in fact, bu...
I, for one, find M.’s way of working enviable. I don’t doubt for a moment that there will be many...
in note 6:
Jules Michelet, La femme (1860; see letter 186, n. 2); L’amour (1858; see letter 26, n. 6); La mer ...
in note 5:
In Le peuple (1846), Jules Michelet describes the spirit and qualities of the French working class. H...
in note 1:
An allusion to a passage in Michelet’s L’amour, book 5, chapter 6, entitled ‘L’unité, est-el...
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
What Michelet says is profound, Why is there a woman alone on earth? You once said, or rather wrote, ...
...he’s the sort of woman to whom the words of Michelet apply: ‘A lady is a lady’. As for reading,...
And the reading MICHELET himself regards as desirable for a woman is L’imitation de Jésus Christ b...
in note 6:
It has not been possible to trace where Michelet advises women to read Thomas a Kempis. For L’imita...
in note 5:
Borrowed from Jules Michelet, L’amour, see letter 184, n. 7.
in note 2:
...before Van Gogh had noted these words from Jules Michelet’s La femme (in a slightly different form)...
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in note 3:
Van Gogh is referring here to Michelet. In L’amour he wrote of the married woman: ‘she is almost ...
342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
in translation:
...ys, no less grave than when she was in there. Michelet says rightly: a woman is an illness. They are ...
in note 6:
Chapter title in Michelet, L’amour (book 1, chapter 2), as is the comment (book 4, chapter 9): ‘�...
345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in translation:
...s full knowledge of their work? I think that the same applies to Michelet and Erckmann-Chatrian too.
in note 6:
... gospel to the French Constitution from Carlyle or Michelet. See Sund 1992, pp. 260-261 (nn. 89-92).
349 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 June 1883.
in note 7:
Van Gogh based this notion of regression on Michelet: see letter 337, n. 3.
368 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 27 July 1883.
in translation:
Not at once. Michelet puts it beautifully, and those few words by M. say everything I mean, ‘Soc...
in note 4:
This very approximate quotation is taken from Michelet’s L’amour (‘Les aspirations de l’autom...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in note 13:
Van Gogh bases this on Michelet’s ‘Every woman, at every age, if she loves and if she is kind, gi...
in note 12:
Taken from the last sentence of Michelet, L’amour (p. 418). In his ‘Notes et éclaircissements’...
in note 10:
...7. Van Gogh will have known the quote through Michelet, who cited it both in La femme and in L’amou...
394 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Friday, 12 October 1883.
in note 7:
This expression is taken from Michelet; see letter 143, n. 2.
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...Millet, Israëls, Herkomer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, a host more from the more...
405 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 11 November 1883.
in note 12:
Jules Michelet, Du prêtre, de la femme, de la famille. 3th ed. Paris 1845, p. 14.
413 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 15 December 1883.
in translation:
I also thought of Michelet’s saying (which he had from a zoologist), ‘the male is very wild’. A...
in note 8:
Jules Michelet quotes this sentence in L’amour (book 2, ‘La noce’ (The wedding) as ‘the hard,...
415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
in note 4:
See for this quotation from Proudhon quoted in Michelet’s La femme: letter 181, n. 8.
434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.
in note 5:
...ren’s inspirational role for an artist from Michelet’s L’amour and La femme, and from Sensier�...
461 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 22 and about Sunday, 28 September 1884.
in translation:
... — Louis-Philippe’s minister on one side, Michelet and Quinet with the students on the other side...
Quinet now, say, or Michelet or V. Hugo (later), was the difference between them and their opponents ...
...u would have been on Guizot’s side and I on Michelet’s side. And both remaining consistent, could...
in note 7:
Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet, both of whom held liberal views, rebelled against Guizot’s conserv...
463 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 September 1884.
in translation:
...the Guizots but the revolutionaries, Michelet — and also the peasant painters of Barbizon.Michelet
474 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 10 December 1884.
in note 4:
See for this quote from Proudhon quoted in Michelet’s La femme: letter 181, n. 8.
477 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 December 1884.
in note 8:
...asari. Van Gogh derived his knowledge from Jules Michelet, L’amour, the start of book 5, chapter 4:...
507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
in note 11:
...though, did. His illustrations appeared in Jules Michelet, L’oiseau. Paris 1881. See cat. Amsterdam...
in note 2:
See for this dictum, taken from Jules Michelet, La sorcière: letter 294, n. 6.
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in note 13:
... idea from reading the chapter on nests in Jules Michelet’s popular L’oiseau, published in 1856. ...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in note 16:
...cription ‘magician’ for Rembrandt from Jules Michelet, L’amour (book 5, chapter 4, ‘There is ...
in note 14:
In La femme Jules Michelet had written about the painting Charity by Andrea del Sarto in the Louvre: ...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in note 15:
Derived from Michelet, L´amour. See letter 534, n. 16.
560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
in translation:
...��s face and knows his work is something like Michelet. Whistler and Legros have both made his portra...
578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
in note 14:
...exhib. cat. Arles 1999 and Dorn 1990, p. 152. Michelet had also written about it in L’amour, which ...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in note 19:
...erm ‘magician’ to Rembrandt. He had borrowed it from Michelet, L’amour. See letter 534, n. 16.
652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in note 7:
...view about Socrates’s legendary ugliness on Michelet’s ‘a veritable satyr’ (un vrai satyre) (...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 13:
...apter entitled ‘Les aspirations de l’automne’ in Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 14, n. 19.
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in note 13:
...hes on and off’ (Dieu est comme un phare à éclipse), taken from Jules Michelet’s La sorcière.
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 5:
...ression ‘comme un phare à éclipse’ in Jules Michelet’s La sorcière; see letter 300, n. 10.
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in note 25:
It was Jules Michelet who called Rembrandt a ‘magician’ (see letter 534, n. 16). Fromentin spoke ...
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in translation:
...amount of Socrates in him, ugly as a satyr as Michelet said... until on the last day a god was to be ...
in note 7:
...assage on Socrates and the Parthenon is an allusion to Michelet’s L’amour; see letter 368, n. 4.
764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in note 9:
... have known the anecdote from L’amour by Jules Michelet (book 1, chapter 3): ‘Some-one asked the ...
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in translation:
...bition, a woman already old but completely as Michelet felt, that there’s no such thing as an old w...
in note 15:
For this passage from Michelet’s L’amour, see letter 655 and letter 27, n. 2.
834 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 3 January 1890.
in note 20:
...ierge had illustrated all nineteen volumes of Michelet’s Histoire de France (1876-1878). One exampl...
in translation:
...��s drawings – I’ve just seen a volume of Michelet’s (illustrated) Histoire de France. I saw ad...

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2 essay items found

Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...nt was his discovery, probably in 1873, of Jules Michelet, and in particular of his popular didactic ...
...ame applied to what he read. He anathematized Michelet, and urged Theo to do the same and only read t...
...ned on for a career as an artist. He regarded Michelet and Beecher Stowe as modern authors, although ...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...stes. As soon as Theo announced that he liked Michelet, literature became a recurring theme (26, 27)....
...ther letters to the Van Stockums: Longfellow, Michelet, Brentano. The rather lengthy passage about Ke...

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1 other item found

Chronology
in 1881:
...to her, but she turns him down (179, 180). #Re-reads Michelet’s L’amour and La femme (186).
...d tries in vain to see Kee Vos (193). #Reads Michelet, Du prêtre, de la femme, de la famille (193)....
in 1878:
April #Reads Michelet’s L’histoire de la Révolution française (143).
in 1875:
...oems and prose fragments by Heine, Uhland, Sainte-Beuve, Carlyle, Michelet and Goethe, among others.
in 1873:
Autumn #Reads Michelet’s L’amour (14).

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79 letters, 2 essay items and 1 other item found

79 letters found

2 essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters