Historical dream account · English · machine translation
Dream of the Police Commissioner
Yves Delage
Le rêve : étude psychologique, philosophique et littéraire · Undated PUF witness, printed pp. 127
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Another time, I am dealing with a police commissioner. His strongly marked profile strikes me without awakening the slightest memory. But on waking I recognize him: his features are those of an actor of the Comédie Française whom I had seen reciting a poem the day before.
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Rêve du Commissaire
Une autre fois, j'ai affaire à un commissaire de police. Son profil, vivement accentué, me frappe sans éveiller d'ailleurs le moindre souvenir. Mais au réveil, je le reconnais : ses traits sont ceux d'un artiste de la Comédie Française que j'avais vu la veille récitant une poésie.
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A short but complete first-person sleep-dream with its waking recognition, presented by Delage among examples from his memories. The unnamed actor remains unnamed. The preceding, separately titled account is not part of this dream. The memory association is the narrator’s historical explanation, not a verified identification by Synastry.
Yves Delage (1854–1920), Le rêve : étude psychologique, philosophique et littéraire (Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, undated witnessed edition), printed pp. 127. Original French text from the University of Ottawa copy digitized by Internet Archive. The displayed title is the printed source heading.
The witnessed PUF title page is undated. Internet Archive supplies 1919 and a matching BnF record supplies 1924; neither is treated as an observed printed date or as the dream date. No exact dream date is inferred.
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Only Yves Delage’s original French prose is used. The undated historical PUF witness is catalogued as 1919 by Internet Archive and a matching PUF edition is catalogued as 1924 by the Bibliothèque nationale de France; neither year is claimed to be printed in this witness. Both are before 1931 and the original text is public domain in the United States. Delage died in 1920; the ordinary author-life-plus-70 term has also elapsed where applicable. This is an expiry-based assessment of the original prose, not a new license from Internet Archive and not permission for any modern translation, edition or added material.
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Printed pp. 127; IA leaves 153
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Selected the complete separately headed recalled account; omitted the printed title from its body, page furniture and adjacent theory or other accounts. Joined typesetter line wraps and split words while preserving the true compound celui-ci; retained source paragraph boundaries. Applied only the listed scan-verified OCR repairs. Retained the printed French source heading as the title, without translation, narrative expansion or identity inference.
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