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Alphonse
de
Lamartine arrives to Aix-les-Bains
in
Savoy the 1er October 1816. Lamartine places in a pension in
top of the city. In the close room resides a young woman, Julie Charles.
She suffers from pulmonary tuberculosis, and knows herself condemned.
During a voyage in Hautecombe, on the sudden lake in storm, the poet
saves Julie of a boat in perdition. Their idyll transitory and
impassioned, more desperate than adultery, will be the emblem of the
love such as will conceive it the XIX2nd century. Lamartine
leaves on October 26. He returns to Aix-les-Bains
the next summer, but Julie cannot leave Paris any more, where she will
die little afterwards. Publication of the "Poetic Meditations" where figure the poem "the Lake" will make the effect of a literary revolution. It is a genuine proclamation of all the romantic topics. The Lake
Thus, always thorough worms
of new shores,
O lake! the year hardly
finished its career,
You mugissais thus under
these deep rocks;
Does one evening, t'en
remember it? we sailed in silence,
Suddenly unknown accents
with the ground
"O time, suspend your
flight! and you, favourable hours
"Enough unhappy there down
beseeches you:
"But I ask for a few
moments again
in vain
"thus Let us like, thus
like! fugitive hour,
Jealous time, may be it
that these moments of intoxication,
Hé what! will not be able
about it we to fix at least the trace?
Eternity, nothing, past,
dark abysses,
O lake! dumb rocks! caves!
obscure forest!
That it is in your rest,
that it is in your storms,
That it is in the zephyr
which quivers and which passes,
That the wind which groans
the reed which sighs All says: "They liked! " Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869) [The cave] - [The Last Inhabitant] - [The Star] - [The Poem] - [Summary Old Stones] [Thomas II] - [The Priory] - [The Cave] - [Abbey] - [Castles] - [The Chapel] |
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