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"Anatole France. . . . because of his far rarer power to deal with what is older than any art, and withal more young, and incomparably more precious: the beauty of what is beautiful in human emotion." -- Lafcadio Hearn, from his introduction to The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Jacketless library hardcover)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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I WROTE to my housekeeper, as I promised, that I was safe and sound. But I took good care not to tell her that I had caught cold from going to sleep in the library at night with the window open; for the good woman would have been as unsparing in her remonstrances to me as parliaments to kings.