Adventures of the Comte de la Muette during the Reign of Terror

by Bernard Capes

Overview

ONE morning I awoke in La Bourbe and looked across at Deputy Bertrand as he lay sprawled over his truckle-bed, his black hair like a girl's scattered on the pillow, his eyelids glued to his flushed cheeks, his face, all blossoming with dissipation, set into the expression of one who is sure of nothing but of his own present surrender to nothingness. Beside him were his clothes, flung upon a chair, the tri-colour sash, emblematic stole of his confused ritual, embracing all; and on a nail in the wall over his head was his preposterous hat, the little carte de civisme stuck in its band.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823186636
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/11/2023
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)