Set of five autograph letters signed to Amédée-Pierre Bovier-Lapierre (1837-1899).

Amédée-Pierre Bovier-Lapierre (1837-1899), lawyer and member of parliament for Isère, was then aged between 18 and 21.
Georges Lubin, in his Correspondance de George Sand, lists only one letter to Pierre-Marie-Auguste Bovier-Lapierre (1808-1859), father of Amédée-Pierre Bovier-Lapierre (1837-1899), for the period January 1855-June 1860 [6669D].

Two of these letters from Georges Sand concern the death of children and developments on the subject, her granddaughter Jeanne who died in 1855, and probably one of her correspondent's children.

Nohant June 22, 1855. One-page LAS with envelope.
She mourns the death of her granddaughter who died in January of this year.
“I went to Italy to seek the health that was leaving me, I found it again but not the oblivion of the loss of my poor dear little Jeanne, my daughter's daughter”.

Nohant 19 April 57. 2 pp.
On the death of a child.
“Alas, Monsieur, you are to be pitied and I pity you with all my soul. What a trial in life this separation is! No matter how many times we tell ourselves we'll meet again, this one-day life seems interminable when it's time to say goodbye. And yet it's true (?) that we'll find them again, those dear objects of our highest affections. Have faith in the future, of which every thought in our present life should make us worthy. I don't know what it will be, but the most obvious notion, because it is our most lively, most worthy aspiration, is that we will be reunited with our poor, our children, our true loves.”

These other three letters are lighter in subject but heavier in tone, revealing George Sand's assertive character.

Undated. LAS 3 pages with envelope. Small tear. In an envelope dated 1835, but which does not seem to be that of the letter sent.
A response that is not lacking in salt.
“First of all, Monsieur, I don't have Lettres d'un voyageur, do you think authors have their works? Secondly, I'm past the age of putting a white rose on my ear to show some mysterious sympathy. I'd much rather take direct action and answer your letter. But I won't answer everything you say about me, because I don't know myself that well, and you seem to know my works much better than I do. [...] If you were to read my memoirs, you would see that my personality is not the purpose of my books, nor is it the amusement or occupation of my life. I have other things to worry about! [...] You could write me insults and I would still go my own way. I've made my own way and found my raison d'être; I'm proud now to do everything I do to the best of my ability.”

Nohant August 25, 1855. 1 page. In an envelope dated September 24, 1854, which is not that of the letter sent.
Proposes a meeting in Paris but asks her not to wait for him as a circumstance may delay his arrival. “Je dis donc par hasard”.

Nohant 28/9/1858. In an envelope dated November 28, 1858
Small letter 2 pp.
“I haven't read Proudhon's book I won't read it. Violence and aversion cannot intrigue well, and I only read what can benefit me. Aren't books meant to do us good, and criticism to educate us? Insults are not criticism. [...]”

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