It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac
and the journalist Henri de Latouche
. Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
.
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Textual Features
Toru Dutt
Her translation of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
's poem Hope equates spring with optimism: When winter's last reflections lie Upon the front of leafless woods, When still the north-east wind is high, Whistling and thundering, loth...
