Modeste Mignon (Honoré de Balzac)
Also known as: Modeste Mignon, la modeste Mignon
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Modeste Mignon, a novel by Balzac (1844, La Comédie humaine, Scènes de la vie privée): a provincial girl of Le Havre, living on her imagination, begins a secret correspondence with a famous Paris poet she has never met (fr.wikipedia «Modeste Mignon»).
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- 9 December 1882 (097.0220): Marie finds in it «des choses frappantes»: «Cette jeune fille qui vit par l'imagination, qui s'arrange une double vie et qui est continuellement l'héroïne d'une quantité de romans».
- 28 June 1883 (100.0255): «Je rêve d'entamer une correspondance à la modeste Mignon».
The next spring she did write anonymously to a famous author, Guy de Maupassant (GUY_DE_MAUPASSANT).
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