BARBEY d'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889) Very... - Lot 88 - Vermot et Associés

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BARBEY d'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889) Very... - Lot 88 - Vermot et Associés
BARBEY d'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889) Very beautiful handwritten political text titled: "Les Bottes de foin". 2 pages in-folio (rough repair on the edges). Superb polemical text, written in colored inks, attacking the Political Parties, the Republic, the Democracy, on the occasion of the candidacy to the deputation (probably in 1873) of Désiré Barodet, politician known for his violent anticlericalism. "...if he believes that it is because of his merits...that the republicans - his brothers and friends - are shouting and clamouring for his candidacy, the poor man is under a famous illusion! And it is not only we monarchists who will get him out of it; it is not only we who will warn him that he is the most miserable grotesque that Democracy, that woman of clowns, has ever married... They are his own friends - Job's friends - to this Political Job..."; "...These hungry democrats whom the smell of hay puts in appetite, did they not swallow the haystack Hugo, which Rochefort, when it was only half swallowed, called wet hay capable of giving colic and flatulence to the majestic belly of the Republic..."; "...So Barodet, what will you do and what will you be once swallowed and digested by your delicious little mother, Democracy? And what will be left of your interesting person, Barodet, but what remains of a sailor, in the infected air, on a shore where anthropophagi have passed..."; "...the question for us is this- and this is the most terrible and thoroughgoing argument against the republic...is there anything more revolting and disgusting to proud minds and noble men than those systems of government where no one is taken for his own worth, but where everyone can be chosen in spite of the worth he does not have?..."; "...And she does not even bother to lie, Democracy! It says cynically like the privateer: take my monkey! ...Oh don't be mistaken! such is the essence of Democracy! for it the personalities are nothing because one day they can be everything! A man of great personality is always odious or suspicious to any Republic. What it needs from this government, which is only the organization of envy, are puppets that can be thrown into the fire once the strings have been broken, they are puppets, they are Barodets...". Very beautiful political text.
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