Two Letters from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
Gustave Flaubert, translated by Geoffrey Wall, 22 June 1995
“... he said: ‘I am one of the jealous kind, I would kill a woman, and so on.’ He hasn’t killed George Sand. It was to look like a bit of a rogue that he said: ‘Yesterday I almost slaughtered a journalist.’ Yes, almost, because someone held him back. The journalist might have slaughtered him. It was to sound like a scholar that he said: ‘I read ... ”