Quote: Supposed Lincoln quote traces to Alphonse Karr - help with French requested

[W Brewer]

GO'T: <<Do you think that Karr was stating that the authorship of the verse was
anonymous?>>
WB:  Karr (?) was just pretending to want to protect the poet's anonymity?
So that Karr actually wanted to out the poet? This is all so
je-ne-sais-quoi.

Let us say in passing since everything interests a great poet (?), that the
favorite flower of Monsieur Victor Hugo is this delightful little white &
rose bindweed/convolvolus of the hedge-rows which exudes a so delicious
odor of bitter almond. Let us humbly & sneakily slip in here four lines
about roses & their thorns; the author wants to appear to desire to protect
the anonymous writer.

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