IDENTITY
La Mer
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A natural-history and philosophical book about the sea, combining scientific information with highly literary descriptions of marine life, coasts, storms and human relationships with the ocean. Michelet treats nature as dynamic and living while moving between observation, history and poetic reflection.
Evidence Summary
The sea description was important enough to copy into an album and reuse later.
Direct literary/visual descriptive source.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Michelet
Work
La Mer
Years / Period
1875 / 3 Apr 1878
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
1875 / 3 Apr 1878 — RM05 / Letter 143 note 33
Quoted / Copied · Copied / recalled passage
Van Gogh copied the Granville passage from La mer and referred to it again in Letter 143.
Response: The sea description was important enough to copy into an album and reuse later.
Connection: Direct literary/visual descriptive source.
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