STIEVENARD (Jean-François). - Lot 275

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STIEVENARD (Jean-François). - Lot 275
STIEVENARD (Jean-François). Born in Commercy. 1794-1860. Professor of Greek literature and French historian. 5 L.A.S. "Stievenard" to "Monsieur et cher confrère". [Bon Le Camus]. Dijon, March 15, April 26, December 12, 1851, April 18 and August 27, 1852. Total: 10 pp. in-8. Letterhead of the Académie de la Côte d'Or, Faculté des lettres. March 15, 1851: Jean-François Stievenard offers his services to his colleague: "... I am at your disposal. What you have done for Horace is a brilliant promise for Anacreon. Send me your manuscript whenever you like... He adds: ... I'll only ask you for a little time. I'll do my best to respond to your confidence, and at least I'll have the merit of not bankrupting you...". April 26, 1851: He admits to his "plundering": "... I must clear my conscience: I have stolen from you. Two of the most happily translated plays, in my opinion, the 11th and 30th, have been included in a certain Greek-French anthology for which I'm going to forage here and there, and which will be able to pay for some of my public lessons, faithfully rendering to each what belongs to him, of course...". December 12, 1851: After acknowledging receipt of the manuscript, he states: "... I am sending it back to you today after further examination. You will not find any marginal notes, because I have found no more serious observations to submit to you. Your translation has a remarkable stamp of graceful ease and scrupulous fidelity...". April 18, 1852: "... Your collection of fables is one of the prettiest I know (...) Fine observations, applicable criticism without gall, sweet reveries and yet precision, twenty other amiable qualities are to be found in it. You happily glean from La Fontaine's style: an epithet here, a hemistiche there, an allusion elsewhere, are in no way plagiarisms; it's the flight of the young Spartan, it's a skilful homage...". August 27, 1852: "... Didot has printed in a manner worthy of you and Anacreon your translation, of which I have just reviewed several parts, where you have added, again to your elegant and precise fidelity, will find a place on the shelves of my library, between your Horace and your fables. Please accept my heartfelt thanks..." Notice : Jean-François Stievenard, professor of Greek literature at the universities of Strasbourg and Dijon, was also a historian and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1856 to 1860. Receiver General of Finances in the Landes region, Bon Le Camus was an amateur writer. He translated numerous Greek and Latin works, and wrote fables inspired by those of Jean de La Fontaine. He published translations of Horace's Odes in 1835 and 1841, and Anacreon in verse in 1852. In the same year, he published Cent Fables.
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