ABSTRACT

ON 22 July 1917 Maurice Maeterlinck wrote to the composer Lili Boulanger:

Dear Mademoiselle and Friend,

All my thoughts are with you in your pain and your anxiety. But I have a confidence which comes to me from I don't know where and which I would like to share with you. I feel – I would nearly say, I know – that the child-genius who must give a voice to La princesse Maleine cannot pass away before having accomplished her work, which seems fused with her destiny.

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