Giacomo Casanova et Cecille von Roggendorff lettres de sa dernière correspondante
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Ce texte cherche à analyser l’échange épistolaire entre Giacomo Casanova et Cecille von Roggendorff, à partir du 6 février 1797 jusqu’à la mort de Casanova, le 4 juin 1798. Cette correspondance encadre non seulement un rapport précepteur-écolière, mais, peu à peu, le vieux libertin agît comme un père inquiet pour sa fille. Nous essayerons de suivre les étapes de cette connaissance réciproque à travers les vicissitudes quotidiennes, les maladies de Casanova et les états mélancoliques de Cecille, la tentative de ce dernier de la placer comme dame d’honneur chez les filles du duc Pierre de Curlande. Le compte rendu lettre par lettre met l’accent sur les interlocuteurs et permet une mise à jour de la narration que l’auteur de l’Histoire de ma vie a consciemment décidé d’arrêter avant ses dernières années passées à Dux.
This essay attempts to analyze the exchange between Giacomo Casanova and Cecilia von Roggendorff, during the two years before Casanova’s death in Dux, Bohemia (4 June 1798). Such correspondence represents the step-by-step evolution of a teacher-pupil relationship into a father-daughter one, with the old libertine getting increasingly worried about her. Our analysis follows such mutual exchange through everyday matters such as Casanova’s illness and Cecilia’s melancholy, the former’s attempt to place her into the court as the duke Pierre de Curlande’s maid of honor. By means of a letter-by-letter account, some light is shed on the interlocutors and Casanova’s narration in his Histoire de ma vie, which omits his last years spent in Dux.
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