Geneviève
I.L'imagination est le miroir de la nature ; miroir que nous portons en nous, et dans lequel elle se peint. La plus belle imagination est le miroir le plus clair et le plus vrai, celui que nous ternissons le moins par le souille de nos inventions, celui que nous colorons le moins par les teintes artificielle ; et trop souvent fausses de notre propre fantaisie que nous appelons notre génie. Le génie ne crée pas, il retrace ; Dieu s'est réservé en tout la création.Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.
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Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French: ; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869) was a French author, poet, and statesman. Initially a moderate royalist, he became one of the leading critics of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, aligning more with the Republican Left and Social Catholicism.
Lamartine was a leading figure in the 1848 French Revolution and was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic along with the preservation of the tricolor as the flag of France. During the revolutionary year of 1848 he served as Foreign Minister and frequently worked to ease tensions between the government and the working class. He was a candidate in the 1848 French presidential election but lost to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. After the election, he retired from political life.
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