One feels forgotten and abandoned by one’s fellow men; despised by other people, useless and a burden to everybody. There is no other remedy for this than the patience and tranquillity which normally originates in the correct administration of the Holy Sacraments and daily conversation with a pious and charitable man whose only objective is God and who has no lazy plans of making his luck at the expense of a tormented human being.
Oh my. This says much. My prison-chaplain friend needs to see this. :(
It does indeed, doesn't it? He is grander here than in his magnificence.
The more I read the more I see it as a story of guilt (pride, vanity and hubris, especially shortly before his downfall, when he seems to have lost his sense of proportion and propriety) and atonement. Very, very Catholic in a way, and maybe that's what I find so interesting.
Please do show it to your friend. I would love to see that long-forgotten and much slandered Fouquet would get some recognition.
BTW, I think the last sentence of clerics making their luck at the expense of an afflicted man refers to the fact that many of his ever-changing confessors were used to spy on him.
Superb little book by Paul Morand, written perhaps 40 or 50 years ago, wonderful.
(I wandered over to your LJ because tigertrapped said you knew all about RA not being in Strike Back after all, due to his portraying a dwarf in a movie I would not even download from a torrent, so bored am I by the sheer tedium of it. And then found this magnificent letter! Where is it from?)
I found it in a biography of Fouquet, but I am at work now, and don't know the author by heart. Translating it was a piece of work, beacuse my French isn't good!
Actually I have that little book and it is beautiful, thank you! I cried a lot reading it.
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Oh my. This says much. My prison-chaplain friend needs to see this. :(
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The more I read the more I see it as a story of guilt (pride, vanity and hubris, especially shortly before his downfall, when he seems to have lost his sense of proportion and propriety) and atonement. Very, very Catholic in a way, and maybe that's what I find so interesting.
Please do show it to your friend. I would love to see that long-forgotten and much slandered Fouquet would get some recognition.
BTW, I think the last sentence of clerics making their luck at the expense of an afflicted man refers to the fact that many of his ever-changing confessors were used to spy on him.
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But he has!
Superb little book by Paul Morand, written perhaps 40 or 50 years ago, wonderful.
(I wandered over to your LJ because tigertrapped said you knew all about RA not being in Strike Back after all, due to his portraying a dwarf in a movie I would not even download from a torrent, so bored am I by the sheer tedium of it. And then found this magnificent letter! Where is it from?)
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Actually I have that little book and it is beautiful, thank you! I cried a lot reading it.
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