Note 872 — Chapter I · THE SUCCESSORS OF SAINTE-BEUVE.
Reading edition
One of the few wholly agreeable pieces of anecdotage contained in the Journal des Goncourt seems to show that the accusations generally brought as to the poet having hastened his own end by reckless living were at least hasty. It seems that his mother, Madame Aupick, the most respectable of old ladies, died under the same curse of aphasia and general paralysis.