‘L’Ingratitude’ turned up in the course of my research for a biography of Constantin Heger, who taught Emily and Charlotte Brontë French during their time in Brussels and with whom Charlotte fell in love. I’d been trying to find out about his brother Vital, a sales representative for the royal carpet factory in Tournai and decided to look through the catalogue of the Musée royal de Mariemont for any mention of him – its eclectic holdings include carpets – and found a reference to a manuscript by Charlotte Brontë about a rat. It turned out to be the first piece of French homework Charlotte had written for Heger, lost since the First World War.
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Jeg har ikke lest den og det er godt mulig at det er en flott liten historie, men det er likevel litt kuriøst at funnet av en skolestil vekker slik oppmerksomhet. Det er vel tiden som gjør det, antar jeg. Vi blir sikkert også svært oppspilte da post-it-lappene til Karl Ove Knausgård dukker opp om noen hundre år.
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