DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline [Douai, 1786 – Paris, 1859], French poet.

DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline [Douai, 1786 – Paris, 1859], French poet. Autograph manuscript: “La femme d’Orient” (undated), 1 page, in-4°. This manuscript consists of 3 parts: a quatrain (alexandrines), a poem excerpted from “Childe Harold” “In the cool pavilion where the spring’s gush seems like a voice that flows and says: always; always: to the eternal murmur of the stream as it follows its course, the woman of the East lets her days flow by...”

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