Dispersion de la bibliothèque Jacques Guérin, Paris, 20 May 1992. Bulletin d'informations proustiennes, p. 149. Poem of nine lines of which only seven were transcribed in the catalogue.Once Chateaubriand took the same voyage.
He had your beauty, your genius, was of your age.
Disdainful of his title, ambitious for a name
that belonged to him alone not to his progeny
Whereas yet more than he, was his mother well born
[...]
We cannot refrain from thoughts of Vigny and his haughty cry:
If I write their story they will be descended from me.
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