wary of statues, folks. Beware of statues .... They may be alive! Yes, they may be alive ...
Then he had just married his young son, a man found a statue of Venus a strange beauty, buried in his garden. Her beauty was endless, indeed, but emanated from her eyes a mysterious glow human that bothered. The artist who had sculpted his features gave somewhat contracted. His eyes were slightly slanted, corners of his mouth and raised his nostrils slightly swollen too. A kind of disdain, irony and even cruelty read on his face. In truth, the more we looked at this wonderful statue, the more we looked, the more we felt the painful feeling that such a wonderful beauty allied total absence of any sensitivity.
It chanced that the young married, wanting to go frolic with some friends on the town square, when a game ball, had removed her wedding ring finger and had put the finger of the statue of Venus. Inconsequential gesture, you say! And yet ... Listen instead ... The game ended when he came back his ring, he found the finger of marble the statue bent to the palm of the hand, and could not, despite all his efforts, nor break it, or remove the ring. Strange is not it? Disturbing ... even
He said nothing to his friends and went very thoughtful. When he returned at night with the intention at all costs to retrieve his ring, he found stunned that the finger of the statue was recovered and expanded, but that the ring had disappeared . She had inexplicably disappeared ... Later returned to his house and slept beside his young wife, he felt between her and an obstacle imposing heavy and cold. He heard Then a voice came from beyond the grave to tell him "It's my must unite yourself, it's me that you should marry. I am Venus, thou hast made my wedding ring finger and I will repay not "
Stunned, the groom turned and found the statue of Venus looking at him. He began to scream with terror that woke his wife fainted at the sight of this spectacle. She could not in any way, say how long she remained unconscious. She came to, she saw the statue - or the ghost, as she always says - motionless, his arms circling like a shroud, his husband dead. In the morning, the statue out of bed and dropped on the floor of the corpse groom already frozen. Scary, no?
When the couple discovered the woman had lost her mind, anyway, that's what the people said. And to make justice a murderer who was looking presentable, they hanged even a poor vagabond who passed by. Surprising History , you can not find?
So, folks, when you come to make fun of the idea of a monument, to flatter lubriciously the rump of a statue ithyphallic when you come the idea to engrave your initials on a sculpture or a work of art tag - Do not smile young man, do not smile! - I beg you not to do ... to abstain. It could be that the artist who gave him the day he gave a little too his life and one day she wants revenge! ... The statues may be alive, ladies and gentlemen .. . ... Maybe living Beware! A word to salvation. Yours truly. Philippe Gandillet
MERIMEE (Prosper). Letters to Mr. Panizzi (1850-1870). 2 volumes. Paris, Calmann Levy, 1881. Fifth edition. Format in / 8, half-calf binding, glossy back to 4 nerves, part of title in gold letters. Flyleaf colored paper. Frontispiece in each volume, 367 and 454 pages. Anthony Panizzi, librarian is a British-Italian (1797 - 1879). After studies at the University of Parma, he became a lawyer and undertakes mainly in political action, which earned him having to flee Modena. He first joined Lugano, where he published a pamphlet Processi di Rubiera, who denounced the rape of procedures, illegalities and injustice of the government in its fight against opponents. Expelled, he won England in 1823. He did it quickly and relations thus obtained to be appointed Professor of Italian at University College London and assistant librarian in the department of prints of the British Museum Library (1831-1837). He took British citizenship in 1832 while working on editions of the Italian poets, he wrote the catalog of the library of the Royal Society. There is also a major Italian patriot. He returned to epistolary relationship with Guizot, Thiers, Garibaldi and Merimee. This last correspondence was published in 1881. Merimee was inspired by the work of Panizzi when drafting its proposals for revision of the Imperial Library in 1858. Rare spots. Nice copy that enlightens us on the life and thought of this great commission of France. € 60 + shipping 
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