La Préface de Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier

Maternal kindness did not come to his aid, the frolicsome author, who Pages of the Grotesques or of Mademoiselle de Maupin.

Poet tells how his father often shut him up in his room at that time,įorbidding him to leave it until he had completed a certain number of A tradition preserved in the family of the Work, or preferring the task of making two harmonious rhymes to all theīeauties of his learned and rhythmic prose, incessantly abandoned and For two years Théophile Gautier, more enamored of freedom than of Mademoiselle de Maupin was not, however, destined to see the light so Of the work of an author but little known and only twenty-two years Published in August, 1833, his first volume of prose, Young France,Īnd now it was a question of launching a work in two volumes, a trulyĭaring undertaking for a publisher of that day especially in the case Had made the acquaintance of the author at Victor Hugo's he had Of Hoffman, by Lœve-Weimars, which appeared in October, 1833,Īnnouncing the new work of Théophile Gautier as being in press. The title: Mademoiselle de Maupin-Double Love appeared, we believe,įor the first time in Renduel's catalogue in connection with The Life The very numerous editions that have been published, had a very modestīeginning which in no way foreshadowed the great success which it was This celebrated novel, the celebrity of which has not been lessened by BURNHAM THE ETCHINGS ARE BY FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LE SUEUR AND DRAWINGS BY ÉDOUARD TOUDOUZE THIS EDITION OF MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSLATED BY I.

La Préface de Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier