DUMAS (fils) Alexandre (1824-1895).
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DUMAS (fils) Alexandre (1824-1895).
Autograph letter signed, (s.l.) April 19, 63. 4 pp. in-8.
Beautiful and interesting letter written after reading the work of his correspondent "This is the way to plead causes (...) Why has this way of defending our national glories not been adopted by all? That would have been better than to go always advocating France, exalting it at all times, in a blind and insane way, and denigrating foreigners without ceasing, for lack of understanding them (...)" he continues on Anglophobia which he describes as nonsense and being part of our failings and concludes "My conviction is indeed that poetry (nowadays especially) does not dispense from the truth (...)".
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