NERVAL, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, 1808-1855). Autograph letter signed to Monsieur Labrunie (his father), Cairo, 2 May 1842, 3 pages, small 4to , address panel, traces of seal (duststained, seal tears touching words in 7 lines on 2nd leaf, fumigation slits).
NERVAL, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, 1808-1855). Autograph letter signed to Monsieur Labrunie (his father), Cairo, 2 May 1842, 3 pages, small 4to , address panel, traces of seal (duststained, seal tears touching words in 7 lines on 2nd leaf, fumigation slits). An enthusiastic account of his visit to Egypt as he prepares to leave for Beirut, recounting his comprehensive tour of the country: 'Les moeurs des villes vivantes sont plus curieuses à observer que les restes des cités mortes ... J'ai vu des fanatiques qui s'etaient mis dans un état d'exaltation analogue à celui des convulsionnaires se coucher sur le ventre en grand nombre sous les pas du cheval de l'Emir des pélerins; le cheval trotte sur un chemin de dos humains sans leur faire de mal à ce qu'ils disent; voilà un miracle perpétuel qu'ils opposent aux chrétiens ... Le Caire est du reste une ville qu'on ne connaitrait pas en un an'. Nerval goes on to list acquaintances he has made as well as the poverty and poor health of the population, the Italian theatre, his efforts to speak 'ce qu'on appelle la langue franque qui se compose arbitrairement des mots de ces trois langues', local marriage customs, his arrangements for the journey to Beirut, and his adoption of 'la mode du pays ... un tarbouch avec une coiffe blanche'. Gérard de Nerval visited Egypt and Syria in 1842-43, returning to France by Constantinople and Romania; his journeys are described in his published account of his travels.
NERVAL, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, 1808-1855). Autograph letter signed to Monsieur Labrunie (his father), Cairo, 2 May 1842, 3 pages, small 4to , address panel, traces of seal (duststained, seal tears touching words in 7 lines on 2nd leaf, fumigation slits).
NERVAL, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, 1808-1855). Autograph letter signed to Monsieur Labrunie (his father), Cairo, 2 May 1842, 3 pages, small 4to , address panel, traces of seal (duststained, seal tears touching words in 7 lines on 2nd leaf, fumigation slits). An enthusiastic account of his visit to Egypt as he prepares to leave for Beirut, recounting his comprehensive tour of the country: 'Les moeurs des villes vivantes sont plus curieuses à observer que les restes des cités mortes ... J'ai vu des fanatiques qui s'etaient mis dans un état d'exaltation analogue à celui des convulsionnaires se coucher sur le ventre en grand nombre sous les pas du cheval de l'Emir des pélerins; le cheval trotte sur un chemin de dos humains sans leur faire de mal à ce qu'ils disent; voilà un miracle perpétuel qu'ils opposent aux chrétiens ... Le Caire est du reste une ville qu'on ne connaitrait pas en un an'. Nerval goes on to list acquaintances he has made as well as the poverty and poor health of the population, the Italian theatre, his efforts to speak 'ce qu'on appelle la langue franque qui se compose arbitrairement des mots de ces trois langues', local marriage customs, his arrangements for the journey to Beirut, and his adoption of 'la mode du pays ... un tarbouch avec une coiffe blanche'. Gérard de Nerval visited Egypt and Syria in 1842-43, returning to France by Constantinople and Romania; his journeys are described in his published account of his travels.
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