Joseph Bouchardy, Romanticist Playwright. Letter to Mme. Porcher Note on an illness, and request for an advance on his account. Oct. 8, 1850.
French Transcription:
Oct, le 8th 1850
Ma chère Madame Porcher]
Je suis depuis [5?] semaines en hors d’état de quitter ma chambre, Je vous adresse ce mot par l’intermediaire d’un de mes amis, pour vous prier de valoir bien faire mon compte, et le lui remettre afin qu’il puisse me l’apportes à la première visite qu’il me fera. Si d’ici à 8 ou 10 jours, je puis faire la route, Je vous verrai pour en toucher une partie, dans le cas contraire, Le même ami se presentera à vous avec un mot de moi.
J’éspire que tout votre famille est en bonne [santé?] – rappelez moi bien de coeur a Porcher et
?ouh à vous, considerations et dévouement
J. Bouchardy
English Translation:
Oct, the 8 1850
My dear Mrs. Porcher
I’ve been for [5?] weeks in no fit state to leave my room, I address this word to you through the intermediary of a friend of mine, to ask you [to be a dear and] make good on my account, and finally return it to me whenever he can bring it at the first visit that he makes me. If within 8 or 10 days here I can make the trip, I’ll see you [reach a party], otherwise, The same friend will present himself to you with a word from me.
I hope that your entire family is in good [health] – reply [for] me easy at heart [to] Porcher and
???? to you, considerations and devotion
J. Bouchardy
Though virtually forgotten today, Joseph Bouchardy was a
co-founder of the Bouzingo group, the first self-declared “avant-garde”
collective, blending political radicalism, gothic-horror subculture,
experimental literature and art, and the transformation of everyday
life. Trained in England as an engraver, back in France he soon turned
to playwriting, and produced many blockbuster melodramas full of
deception, disguise, double-crossing,
violence, and convoluted, labyrinthine plots often taking place in
labyrinthine settings--delighted when he was able to construct plots so
complex that he even lost track of them himself. (see his Paris the Bohemian under Literature) This note, whose precise circumstances are unclear, seems to involve a request for an advance on money promised on delivery of a play, due to Bouchardy's extended illness. The archive also includes two other letters written by Bouchardy.
French Transcription:
Oct, le 8th 1850
Ma chère Madame Porcher]
Je suis depuis [5?] semaines en hors d’état de quitter ma chambre, Je vous adresse ce mot par l’intermediaire d’un de mes amis, pour vous prier de valoir bien faire mon compte, et le lui remettre afin qu’il puisse me l’apportes à la première visite qu’il me fera. Si d’ici à 8 ou 10 jours, je puis faire la route, Je vous verrai pour en toucher une partie, dans le cas contraire, Le même ami se presentera à vous avec un mot de moi.
J’éspire que tout votre famille est en bonne [santé?] – rappelez moi bien de coeur a Porcher et
?ouh à vous, considerations et dévouement
J. Bouchardy
English Translation:
Oct, the 8 1850
My dear Mrs. Porcher
I’ve been for [5?] weeks in no fit state to leave my room, I address this word to you through the intermediary of a friend of mine, to ask you [to be a dear and] make good on my account, and finally return it to me whenever he can bring it at the first visit that he makes me. If within 8 or 10 days here I can make the trip, I’ll see you [reach a party], otherwise, The same friend will present himself to you with a word from me.
I hope that your entire family is in good [health] – reply [for] me easy at heart [to] Porcher and
???? to you, considerations and devotion
J. Bouchardy
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