Maupassant, Guy de. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("GUY DEMAUPASSANT") to Hadji, about the controversy surrounding his poem "Au bord de l'Eau", explaining that he had already published it in the review La République des lettres when it was taken up without his authorisation by a small review in Etamps, and describing how he was immediately accused of an outrage to public morality, brought before a judge, but that Flaubert had come to his defence, writing to all the papers and that finally the whole affair had afforded him excellent free publicity just at the moment that his collection of poems, Des vers, was due to appear ("...merci messieurs les Magistrats....") ...Le Parquet s'est ému, m'a poursuivi. Je n'ai été averti de la situation que par un Article de Scholl très aimable pour moi dans l'Evènement. Alors j'ai comparu devant le juge d'instruction comme prévenu d'outrages aux moeurs et à la morale publique!--Mais alors j'ai dechaîné Flaubert. Et ce fut dans tous les journaux une bordée d'injures contre la Magistrature... 3 pages, 8vo (c. 205 x 130mm.), on printed stationery of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts", Paris, 27 February 1880, together with letters by Alexandrine Zola, the Empress Marie-Louise, and Courteline
Maupassant, Guy de. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("GUY DEMAUPASSANT") to Hadji, about the controversy surrounding his poem "Au bord de l'Eau", explaining that he had already published it in the review La République des lettres when it was taken up without his authorisation by a small review in Etamps, and describing how he was immediately accused of an outrage to public morality, brought before a judge, but that Flaubert had come to his defence, writing to all the papers and that finally the whole affair had afforded him excellent free publicity just at the moment that his collection of poems, Des vers, was due to appear ("...merci messieurs les Magistrats....") ...Le Parquet s'est ému, m'a poursuivi. Je n'ai été averti de la situation que par un Article de Scholl très aimable pour moi dans l'Evènement. Alors j'ai comparu devant le juge d'instruction comme prévenu d'outrages aux moeurs et à la morale publique!--Mais alors j'ai dechaîné Flaubert. Et ce fut dans tous les journaux une bordée d'injures contre la Magistrature... 3 pages, 8vo (c. 205 x 130mm.), on printed stationery of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts", Paris, 27 February 1880, together with letters by Alexandrine Zola, the Empress Marie-Louise, and Courteline
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