Une bibliothèque est un acte de foi
Des générations ténébreuses encore
Qui rendent dans la nuit témoignage à l'aurore.
Victor Hugo, "À qui la faute?", L'année terrible, juin [1871] VIII ((Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1880 [1872]), 234 (234-236)). I was put onto this by Edmund de Waal, The hare with amber eyes: a family's century of art and loss (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 193. "À qui la faute?" has been rendered into English as "The crime."
Monday, May 30, 2011
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