Les Voyageuses
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (1852-1935)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chartwell, Kent
NT 3116372
Summary
One of thirteen books gifted by the author to Lady Churchill, between 1889 and 1907. Paul Bourget received Lady Randolph Churchill at his residence called the Plantier de Costebelle (Palm House), his home from 1896 till his death in 1935, located in the commune of Hyères-les-Palmiers , in the department of Var, south France.There is correspondence sent by Paul Bourget to Lady Randolph Churchill found in the ‘Churchill Archive’, 1895-1899. Voyageuses (Travellers): This is really a succession of portraits of passers-by, sketched in the quick flash of the most fleeting impression. Only once did our paths cross each other to avoid touching each other down here. Most of them, I do not know where they live, and if they live. They only reappear, when I think about it, only in the momentary frame where I knew them: a boat bridge [...], the nave of an old Italian basilica, the terrace of a foreign palace, a street of a city where neither they nor I have come back ... [...] Travelers, known only enough to pity them with their melancholy, to be happy with their happiness, and not enough to suffer to have seen them disappear forever ... Inscription & Translation: Son respectueusement devoue - From her most sincerely devoted [friend]
Bibliographic description
333p. ; 12mo. Provenance: Bookplate: Jennie Churchill [i.e. Lady Randolph Churchill, née Jeanette Jerome (1854-1921)]. Inscribed "Son respectueusement devoue" [i.e. Paul Bourget to Lady Randolph (Jennie) Spencer-Churchill, (née Jerome (1854-1921)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf.
Makers and roles
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (1852-1935)