Sunday, September 07, 2014

 

An Indecency Among Intellectuals

Maxime DuCamp (1822-1894), Souvenirs littéraires, Vol. I (Paris: Hachette, 1892), p. 291, tr. Francis Steegmuller, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 153:
One day Flaubert arrived at my house furious and vociferous. He told me he had just walked out of one of those dinners with his friends because they had been talking politics—an indecency among intellectuals.
The French:
Un lundi soir, Flaubert arriva chez moi, furieux et rugissant. Il me raconta qu'il venait de quitter le diner où ses amis étaient rassemblés, parce que l'on y parlait politique et que c'était indécent pour des gens d'esprit.



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