MIRABEAU - Signed autograph letter, 1782
MIRABEAU - Signed autograph letter, 1782 "Mirabeau fils" to his wife.
At Château Mirabeau November 6, 1782; 2 pages in-4 °.
Mirabeau attempts a final reconciliation with his wife who has requested the legal separation of the two spouses: "I am sending you, Madame, the copy of the letter that I am writing to your father (…).
No,
Madame, I will never believe that it is no longer possible for you to fulfill your duties; and you are not able to hide from yourself those which your title of wife imposes on you. I won't believe
than
you had the idea of attesting as an insurmountable barrier between your husband and yourself chimerical events of which I have demonstrated the falsity, as an authentic judgment declared it! I do not
Above all, I will not believe that you could have suspected me of being able to attack your freedom, that my whole family as well as yours would defend if I was able to attack it; nor that you
had
threatened with your own husband to invoke the help of the laws against him. It is under their guarantee, Madame, that I am your husband; and this name is very dear to me. I am resolved to claim them
rights, and to defend them (…) because I see your happiness there as well as mine. Eight years have matured my youth since we have lived far from each other. I will hardly believe that these
eight
years devoted to misfortune, a very sacred title on good hearts, has driven me from yours. Question the madam; consult your real friends, those of your house, those of your person; those who
have
no interest in disuniting us, in blurring us; to animate us against each other; I doubt they will interfere with my wishes. But what I do not doubt is that by descending into yourself;
this is
that by listening to the cry of your conscience, of your fairness, of your natural generosity, you would hate to plead, only the man you have chosen, with whom you have lived for two years,
at
who you wrote a few letters very worthy of you, and who has not seen you since these letters, witnesses of your affection, were written; that this man, this father of a son that you
have
cried eighteen months with tears which have softened all those who know you, tears of which your husband alone can dry up the source by giving you other pledges of his love; that this
man
is no longer and should no longer be your spouse. And why Madame? Because he has debts which he would no longer have if their arrangement were not bound by slow formalities? Because he has
summer
very unhappy, very calumniated, and that it pleases I do not know what advice to regard as a personal outrage to you an accusation which an authentic judgment has rejected? Ah! Mrs ! I
you
know well. Your heart is indignant at these barbaric sophisms and disavows your pen. You know that the husband you have chosen is neither without generosity, nor without nobility, nor without
bowels, we even have more praise, madam, than it is appropriate for me to repeat here…. but I must not forget them. They are a judge to me, precious for your affection, your esteem,
deign
remember in your turn that if the threat, even serious and not derisory, like the one that we advised you, never obtained anything from me: your tenderness, your reason, your gentleness
in
were rarely refused, and above all never will be "
Young Mirabeau, despite his gambling debts and a reputation for being a libertine, married Emilie, daughter of the powerful Marquis de Marignane in 1770. They had a son Victor who died in 1778. To escape from
his
creditors, his father had him imprisoned at Fort de Vincennes and at Château de Joux. In parallel, Mirabeau lives a love affair with a married woman, Sophie de Monnier, which forces him to
exile
and imprisonment. His wife requested legal separation in 1782, year of this letter. This was pronounced in 1783.
At Château Mirabeau November 6, 1782; 2 pages in-4 °.
Mirabeau attempts a final reconciliation with his wife who has requested the legal separation of the two spouses: "I am sending you, Madame, the copy of the letter that I am writing to your father (…).
No,
Madame, I will never believe that it is no longer possible for you to fulfill your duties; and you are not able to hide from yourself those which your title of wife imposes on you. I won't believe
than
you had the idea of attesting as an insurmountable barrier between your husband and yourself chimerical events of which I have demonstrated the falsity, as an authentic judgment declared it! I do not
Above all, I will not believe that you could have suspected me of being able to attack your freedom, that my whole family as well as yours would defend if I was able to attack it; nor that you
had
threatened with your own husband to invoke the help of the laws against him. It is under their guarantee, Madame, that I am your husband; and this name is very dear to me. I am resolved to claim them
rights, and to defend them (…) because I see your happiness there as well as mine. Eight years have matured my youth since we have lived far from each other. I will hardly believe that these
eight
years devoted to misfortune, a very sacred title on good hearts, has driven me from yours. Question the madam; consult your real friends, those of your house, those of your person; those who
have
no interest in disuniting us, in blurring us; to animate us against each other; I doubt they will interfere with my wishes. But what I do not doubt is that by descending into yourself;
this is
that by listening to the cry of your conscience, of your fairness, of your natural generosity, you would hate to plead, only the man you have chosen, with whom you have lived for two years,
at
who you wrote a few letters very worthy of you, and who has not seen you since these letters, witnesses of your affection, were written; that this man, this father of a son that you
have
cried eighteen months with tears which have softened all those who know you, tears of which your husband alone can dry up the source by giving you other pledges of his love; that this
man
is no longer and should no longer be your spouse. And why Madame? Because he has debts which he would no longer have if their arrangement were not bound by slow formalities? Because he has
summer
very unhappy, very calumniated, and that it pleases I do not know what advice to regard as a personal outrage to you an accusation which an authentic judgment has rejected? Ah! Mrs ! I
you
know well. Your heart is indignant at these barbaric sophisms and disavows your pen. You know that the husband you have chosen is neither without generosity, nor without nobility, nor without
bowels, we even have more praise, madam, than it is appropriate for me to repeat here…. but I must not forget them. They are a judge to me, precious for your affection, your esteem,
deign
remember in your turn that if the threat, even serious and not derisory, like the one that we advised you, never obtained anything from me: your tenderness, your reason, your gentleness
in
were rarely refused, and above all never will be "
Young Mirabeau, despite his gambling debts and a reputation for being a libertine, married Emilie, daughter of the powerful Marquis de Marignane in 1770. They had a son Victor who died in 1778. To escape from
his
creditors, his father had him imprisoned at Fort de Vincennes and at Château de Joux. In parallel, Mirabeau lives a love affair with a married woman, Sophie de Monnier, which forces him to
exile
and imprisonment. His wife requested legal separation in 1782, year of this letter. This was pronounced in 1783.
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