9 letters found

1. 763 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 28 April 1889.

   in translation:

   ...€™t bother anyone, it would seem to me. Is not Renan’s Christ a thousand times more consoling than...

   As soon as I can, I’m going to read Renan’s Antichrist, I haven’t the slightest idea what it wi...

   in note 6:

   Ernest Renan’s L’Antéchrist (1873), the fourth part of his Histoire des origines du christianism...

   in note 4:

   In Ernest Renan’s Vie de Jésus, Jesus is portrayed as a good-natured and somewhat fanatical ideali...

2. 030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.

   in translation:

   ...for you in the crate to be sent. Also Jesus by Renan and Jeanne d’Arc by Michelet, and also a port...

   in note 4:

   In 1863 Ernest Renan published in Paris his controversial book Vie de Jésus, a monograph on Christ, ...

3. 764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.

   in translation:

   I haven’t re-read those excellent books by Renan but how often I think of them here, where we have ...

   in note 11:

   Van Gogh must be referring to Renan’s Vie de Jésus, which he mentioned in letter 763, together wit...

4. 493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.

   in translation:

   ...ned — years ago I read something about it in Renan that has always stayed with me and that I’ll ...

   in note 13:

   ...ésus and Etudes d’histoire religieuse by Ernest Renan at the beginning of 1875. His memory of this...

5. 784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.

   in translation:

   I think that Renan treated himself to that in order to be able to say beautiful words for once in ful...

   in note 15:

   Ernest Renan’s play L’abbesse de Jouarre (1886) is about the abbess Julie-Constance de Saint-Flor...

6. 033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.

   in translation:

   Renan

7. 782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.

   in translation:

   Perhaps, while reading Zola, we are moved by the sound of the pure French of Renan, for example.

8. 055 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 11 October 1875.

   in translation:

   ...do, have you got rid of the books by Michelet, Renan &c? I believe it will give you peace. You certa...

9. 415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.

   in note 5:

   ...n to a dictum by David Friedrich Strauss on Ernest Renan: See Pierre Mille, Anthologies des humoriste...

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