![]() A durable friendship and - unlike the others - stable, warming his heart, because the friendship of Roulin held both the man and his work in high esteem. In Arles, Vincent had bond of friendship with a postman named Roulin. An episode of his life held my attention. The letters of Vincent van Gogh form an overwhelming human document reading them cannot leave you insensitive. This most passionate of men who, except for family love, knew only contempt, fear or incomprehension. A burn more serious than he got when he held his fingers above the flame of the lamp to get the right to see Kee. And when his cousin Kee told him: "Never! No, never!" (T153) (A) his heart was marked with pain for all his life. Certainly, the brotherhood linking him to Theo was exemplary until death, but how many others could respond to his need to be loved?Ĭolleagues and partners ran away after mocking behaviour, disputes or simply without a word. Vincent van Gogh was deprived during his life not only of healthy and sufficient food, but above all of love. Undoubtedly, people who, in their thoughts express in superlatives their admiration of Van Gogh's work have not overlooked this, but those who beyond time-honoured judgment, seek the pictorial expression of genius, the human heart, are perhaps more numerous. The exhibition of the artists of Auvers-on-Oise, his recent biography by Henri Perruchot (1), the announcement of the publication of his complete correspondence by Julliard, attest to this. ![]() This article does not aim to tell the friendship which links Van Gogh and Roulin, but tries to clarify some details that are not known or left in the shadows by the biographers of the painter. They probably refer to specific positions in the Post Office. ![]() ![]() Some terms such as "brigadier-chargeur" and "itinerant" are difficult to translate. This article is a translation of one written in 1955 in the journal of the French Postal and Telecommunications Authority. ![]()
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