9 letters found

1. 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, ...

2. 033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.

   in translation:

   Renan

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. 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.

9. 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...

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