The language is not the same in a letter and in a text message.
Exit instantaneity, transience and abbreviated words.
An epistolary relationship must be earned, it is based on the duration.
It requires that we sit down, before taking our pen and maturing the words that are going to be written on the paper.
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“Reading a collection of poems is like taking a great journey through feelings. Love, passion, sadness, anger, melancholy, gaiety, they all express something beyond words, often with the art and manner of writing ”
, we read in
Les hundred plus belles lettres de la langue française
, (Le Figaro littéraire, 2020). We are moved to come across these last words of Charlotte Corday, the day before her execution, which she addressed to her father on July 16, 1793:
“Forgive me, my dear papa, for having disposed of my Existence without your permission ( ...) Farewell my dear Papa, I beg you to forget me, or rather to rejoice in my fate, the cause is good. "
Le Figaro invites
you to (re) discover these epistolary exchanges that have marked history.
Will you be faultless?