23 letters found

1. 014 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, between about Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 31 October 1873.

   in note 19:

   ...: above all by the books L’amour (1858) and La femme (1860). He went so far as to describe these di...

2. 180 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 7 November 1881.

   in note 2:

   ...helet, who wrote in the ‘Introduction’ to La femme about his earlier book L’amour: ‘Love came...

3. 181 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 8 or Wednesday, 9 November 1881.

   in note 11:

   Based on Michelet’s L’amour and La femme; see letter 180, n. 2.

   in note 8:

   Michelet, L’amour, p. 268. It emerges from La femme that the saying is Pierre Proudhon’s: ‘Prou...

4. 183 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.

   in note 6:

   ... The phrase ‘Love on’, later in the letter, is from Michelet’s La femme; see letter 180, n. 2.

5. 186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.

   in note 2:

   In La femme Jules Michelet treats the various stages of a woman’s life, arguing that a woman can on...

6. 187 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 19 November 1881.

   in note 17:

   Taken from Michelet’s L’amour and La femme; see letter 180, n. 2. In My wife and I (1872) and it...

   in note 3:

   In La femme Jules Michelet uses the phrase ‘something that beats under the left breast’ (quelque ...

7. 189 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Wednesday, 23 November 1881.

   in note 28:

   Taken from Michelet’s La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 67). Van Gogh quotes this sentence again in lette...

   in note 24:

   ...ogh means that in such books as L’amour and La femme Michelet – in contrast to Mr van Gogh – ar...

   in note 7:

   Regarding this pronouncement, taken from Michelet’s L’amour and La femme, see letter 180, n. 2.

8. 216 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 10 April 1882.

   in note 3:

   ...ed). These words were taken from Michelet’s La femme; ‘délaissé’ is Van Gogh’s own addition...

9. 224 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 7 May 1882.

   in note 3:

   ...th what he had read in Michelet (particularly La femme) and gleaned from English magazines. See Zemel...

10. 225 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 May 1882.

    in note 1:

    Taken from Jules Michelet’s La femme; see letter 189, n. 28.

11. 241 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 1 July 1882.

    in note 2:

    This saying is also found in Jules Michelet, La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 268).

12. 245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.

    in note 12:

    ...e the quotation (see n. 10) Michelet wrote in La femme: ‘Nature has made life a threefold and unbre...

    in note 10:

    Borrowed from Jules Michelet, La femme, see letter 189, n. 28. See also n. 12 below.

13. 246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.

    in note 5:

    ... is the title of a chapter in Jules Michelet, La femme (part 1, chapter 6). See Michelet 1863, pp. 11...

    in note 1:

    ...uation of the letter, are derived from the views put forward in Michelet’s La femme and L’amour.

14. 300 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 January 1883.

    in note 10:

    ...oned just before, included the phrase in both La femme (but there the ‘phare à éclipse’ refers ...

    in note 9:

    ...epuis longtemps et je ne l’aurai jamais), in Jules Michelet’s, La femme (Michelet 1863, p. 331).

15. 312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.

    in note 6:

    Jules Michelet, La femme (1860; see letter 186, n. 2); L’amour (1858; see letter 26, n. 6); La mer ...

16. 316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.

    in note 2:

    ...had noted these words from Jules Michelet’s La femme (in a slightly different form) below the drawi...

17. 337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.

    in note 3:

    ... (Michelet 1863, pp. 12-13). Van Gogh expresses this view in similar phrasing in letter 349.La femme

18. 368 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 27 July 1883.

    in note 4:

    ... (Michelet 1863, p. 175). Incidentally, in this book the Parthenon is mentioned (on p. 227).La femme

19. 388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.

    in note 10:

    ... femme with an attribution to Proudhon (Michelet 1863, p. 196; Michelet, L’amour, p. 268).La femme

20. 415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.

    in note 4:

    See for this quotation from Proudhon quoted in Michelet’s La femme: letter 181, n. 8.La femme

21. 434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.

    in note 5:

    ...nsier 1881, pp. 84, 159 (quotation), 161-162, 220. Cf. also Van Uitert 1993, p. 139 (n. 36).La femme

22. 474 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 10 December 1884.

    in note 4:

    See for this quote from Proudhon quoted in Michelet’s La femme: letter 181, n. 8.La femme

23. 534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.

    in note 14:

    ...uand on est mort plusieurs fois qu’on peut dire ou peindre ainsi) (Michelet 1863, p. 187).La femme

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1. Chronology

   in 1881:

   ...but she turns him down (179, 180). #Re-reads Michelet’s L’amour and La femme (186).La femme