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Charles PEGUY

Notre jeunesse

Cahiers de la Quinzaine, Paris 1910, 13x19cm, relié.

first edition on the current paper.
Binding to the canvas bradel half cream, smooth back, chocolate morocco title piece, paper flat pattern "new century", wrappers preserved and bound in, modern binding.
Precious autograph signed and dated by Charles Peguy Madame Henri de Regnier, born Marie de Heredia who took Gerard Houville as pen name and was, among others, the famous mistress of Peter Louÿs.
A tiny lack margins of the cover page, fragile and brittle paper, as usual.

Amazing dedication of the Apostle of duty and family to that which was one of the great muses of the arts community and knew many adulterous passions.
Yet it is perhaps not just the literary talent of the "fickle" which justifies the tribute "very respectful" Peguy at the end of 1910. The love life of Marie de Heredia is not so foreign to the poet who knows himself, for two years, a platonic passion for adultery Blanche Raphael.
"It is going to love this woman with a love to wobble man and father he is, and who has a sense of duty and responsibility to the proper mystic marriage, unbreakable, engaging it up the same death (...). In this test the abyss, he went out - he alone knew at what price! - Magnanimously victorious, by marrying the woman he loved one of his own friends, to consume his sacrifice. "(Michael Saint-Cheron).
Marie de Heredia, who married Henri de Regnier, best friend of her lover Pierre Louÿs whose son is notoriously that of Louÿs not she represents for Peguy a fantasy love freedom it is prohibited?
A year later, Blanche gave birth to a little girl Peguy love as a father and who will exercise in his heart "the devastation that could be foreseen." (Letter to Pierre Marcel Peguy July 8, 1913, quoted by Robert Charles Peguy in Burac).
We like to think that the dedication of Peguy on this political text evoking the passionate battles of his youth Dreyfus is witness of another fire, that of a "heart full of love unacknowledged" (Ballad of the penalty, 1911 ).


Ballad of the sentence:
"O heart exhausted,
Peri love,
O heart every day
Dismissed.

Heart overflowing with love
Unacknowledged
Deemphasized Heart
Day by day.

Unaccustomed heart,
O destitute,
O heart every day
Mitigated.

One heart full of love,
Tune,
O heart every day
More ventured.

One heart full of love,
O heart crowded,
O heart every day
More inundated.

Heart full of one love
Deterred,
O heart every day
More obsessed.

The heart of a single object
O possessed,
O heart of one being,
O overwhelmed.

(...)

Have you enough punishment
In your attic,
Have you enough hatred
In your game bag.

Why bind sheaves
All these sentences.
It is a weed,
It's full of seeds.

Why link boots
All these sentences,
Pick up in baskets
All these hatreds. "

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