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Lettres de l'Inde
Octave Mirbeau’s ''Lettres de l’Inde'' (''Letters from India'') are a series of eleven articles that appeared in 1885, first in ''Le Gaulois'' between February 22 and April 22, and then in ''Le Journal des débats'', on July 31 and April 1. Signed under the pseudonym Nirvana, they were not collected in a volume until 1991.
== Literary hoax ==
Given that Mirbeau never set foot in India, his work is nothing more than a masterful literary mystification. It was actually in Paris that Mirbeau wrote the first seven letters, centering on Ceylon and Pondicherry, and then in the Orne, near L'Aigle, where, while contemplating the rhododendrons of Normandy, he pictured in the last four letters the twelve-meter high rhododendrons of the Himalayas, glimpsed in an apocryphal trek across Sikkim.
Mirbeau’s original motivation had been to outdo ''Gaulois'' journalist Robert de Bonnières, in Mirbeau's view a pretentious man of the world who himself had undertaken a genuine journey through India, from which he had sent back his travel memories, first published in ''La Revue bleue'' and then collected in 1880 as ''Mémoires d’aujourd’hui'' (''Memoirs of Today''). However, Mirbeau's text is also a ghost-written work written out of financial necessity, as he set in literary form, embellishing and enlivening them, dispatches by his friend François Deloncle, who had been sent on an official mission to India by Jules Ferry. These reports have been preserved in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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