M. - - a charming mind when he pleases, lovable when he is loved. It is of M - - that one can truly say: “Whoever pleases is king; whoever no longer pleases is nothing.”
Mme de Maintenon’s remark: “You will see that God will change his mind.”
Mme de Staël calls direct . “Direct prayer seemed to me too imposing.”
May […]3
Mme de Staël.] “Noble uselessness!” she says, speaking of a monument’s magnificence. Nothing should be harvested in our cemeteries either, and their grass should have a pious uselessness .
May 16.
T223. The paired nominal groups remain without a main finite predicate. The semicolon after fixe is retained.
T40. The French prints ce qu’il a , not ce qu’il y a ; what is most exquisite in him preserves that possessive construction. Porridge, papier-mâché, pumpkin, and fricasseeing in snow retain the unusual images. Ninon remains a source attribution without an independently established quotation.
T224. Two physical paragraphs are retained. The facsimile confirms ce qu’il a . The clipped right edge affects the end of comme and quotation punctuation after mâché ; these are qualified readings from surviving traces and sentence structure. The two separated hyphens after M. and M are retained, with a period only in the first abbreviation. The first clause of paragraph 2 remains nominal.
S1. Source editor’s annotation Word?...
T41. Both separated hyphens remain, with a period only after the first M. Charming when he pleases and lovable when loved retain the repeated relations. The source editor’s Word?... is a separate query; it does not establish an identification or authorize filling the name.
T225. The query and following three periods are retained; no identification is supplied.
T42. Petrify and freeze retain the physical images. Vein keeps veine and its possible creative or poetic sense without identifying a bodily vessel or adding an explanation to Joubert’s text.
T43. Strays renders extravague in the judgment’s movement beyond its proper bounds; augments renders augmente without supplying its object. All three nominal formulations remain. The source asterisk makes this a separate undated unit.
T227. Three nominal phrases remain without a main predicate. The centered asterisk before this block was independently confirmed and creates a separate source unit.
T44. The successive Of phrases remain nominal, including the capital Of after and. Fermentations and hatching preserve the two images of mental production.
T228. The nominal De /Des phrases are retained, including capital De after et .
T45. Man and we retain the change of grammatical person and number. Born to know and destined for it are not collapsed into the same assertion; the apparent distinction remains.
T46. Glasses retains verres as transparent objects through which one sees, without requiring a named kind of lens or drinking vessel. The negative condition and darkening remain.
T47. Only the first direct is emphasized. The opening remains a nominal phrase. Imposing preserves imposante and the sense of awe or solemn weight; its exact shade is not reduced to simple difficulty. The French m’est paru retains its anomalous agreement, which the English verb does not reproduce. The parallel in Corinne XV.5 occurs in the visit to Loreto, with the Virgin as intercessor. It reads m’eût semblé , whereas Joubert’s printed quotation reads m’est paru ; his wording and tense are retained.
T230. The opening group remains a nominal fragment. The quoted m’est paru retains the printed ending despite feminine prière ; no agreement correction is made. Only the first directe is italic.
T48. [Words] corresponds to the source’s supplied [Les mots] . The passage continues onto page 619 as one paragraph. Mots and paroles both become words here, with the latter referring to spoken words in the relation to sound. The final clause omits obscure as the French does.
T231. The source-supplied opening [Les mots] and following ellipsis are retained. The paragraph continues at the top of page 619, including the final elliptic coordination et les paroles, la pensée .
S1. Source editor’s annotation “1. Too many minutiae explored in depth. 2. Man naturally loves the arts, but is not naturally an artist, and the books that suppose him to be... Even in this author’s truest style there are always words larger or, if one likes, fatter than the thought; as in Reynolds... This author’s book interested me little, but occupied me much. This need to philosophize that spoils everything!” I believe Mme de Staël is meant.
T49. The bracketed name and its period come from the source edition. The clipped date preserves only its surviving 3; no leading digit is supplied. Harvested reads recueillit in relation to cemetery grass; nothing harvested and pious uselessness retain the contrast with practical use. Should renders the conditional Il faudroit as a recommendation, not an assertion of existing practice. Noble inutilité occurs in Corinne IV.3 in a fuller sentence about Hadrian’s funerary monument, later Castel Sant’Angelo. Joubert’s exclamation and cemetery recommendation remain his own presentation.
T50. The ordinal labels remain inside one apparatus paragraph. This author’s renders the French third-person possessives without assigning a gender; Beaunier’s final identification of Mme de Staël remains explicitly tentative. Larger and fatter retain the spatial contrast. Interested and occupied remain different responses. The interrupted books clause remains unfinished; the final nominal exclamation is retained.
T232. Only the terminal digit 3 is certifiable at the damaged left margin; a preceding day digit is not supplied. The date call follows mai before its period. The supplied [Mme de Staël.] remains inline, not a separate heading. Recueillit visibly lacks a circumflex, while eût has one. Dit elle is unhyphenated.
T233. The two ordinal labels remain inside a single apparatus paragraph. The attribution to Mme de Staël is expressly tentative in the editor’s final sentence. The ellipses and interrupted et les livres clause are retained.
T234. The source has de tout in the first clause but tout without de in the second; the difference is retained.