Bernard Jansoulet returns from Tunis with a vast fortune and an innocent wish to be accepted in Paris. Flatterers, fashionable doctors, crooked financiers, journalists and an ambitious duke help themselves to his money, while the honest young Paul de Géry, his secretary, watches and the Joyeuse family offers a glimpse of decent life amid the glitter.
A satirical panorama of Second Empire Paris, drawn partly from people Daudet knew. Download the free EPUB.