#I wish the photos were higher res so it was possible to really decipher that princes du sang bit

[monimarat]

I saw this letter from Camille to his father at an auction website and the crossed out sections, missing from the transcribed version, are interesting.

The letter is referenced in Leuwers’ biography and appears this way in Matton’s Correspondence Inédite:

The actual letter had two crossed out sections:

After asking his father to send subscriptions, he crosses out “Je compte deja parmi mes abonnés deux princes du sang.” Probably because he realized that bragging about getting subscriptions from the aristocracy is not very republican, he extra crosses out “deux princes du sang.”

(Although I wonder if this is accurate, because it looks like more words than “deux princes du sang” to me.)

The other is a minor change, from “à deux heures du matin” to “après minuit.” It doesn’t change the meaning, it’s just a small stylistic choice. The kind of thing that you get to see in a letter that’s lost in transcription.