Just found “The Gyspsies” (“Les Tziganes”), by Jean-Paul Clebert (1961), in a translation by Charles Duff (1963). A slightly old book with many illustrations, I am curious what was the approach of the autor, who later wrote books like “L’ermite” (1986), “Guide de la Provence mystérieuse” (1992), “L’alchimiste du Roi-Soleil” (1994), “Dictionnaire du surréalisme” (1996), “Herbier provençal” (2006)…
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FOREWORD to HISTORIA CALAMITATUM
(the story of my misfortunes)
Often the hearts of men and women are stirred, as likewise they are soothed in their sorrows, more by example than by words. And therefore, because I too have known some consolation from speech had with one who was a witness thereof, am I now minded to write of the sufferings which have sprung out of my misfortunes, for the eyes of one who, though absent, is of himself ever a consoler. This I do so that, in comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought, or at the most but of small account, and so shall you come to bear them more easily.
PETER ABERLARD