“Behind the lives and writings of the Germans there is always a mysterious world whose light alone seems to pierce the veil of our atmosphere; and the minds dispose to ascend towards that world – which ends with the beginning of this one – will always be alien to France” – Astolphe de Coustine, in a letter to the artchetypal Romantic Rahel Varnhagen (1817)
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