An early C19th French classic, in which the terms of a young man's unexpected inheritance of a house in the Camargue require that he self-isolate for 3 months...
"I have borne the musket of a soldier, the traveller's cane, and the pilgrim's staff: as a sailor my fate has been as inconstant as the wind: a kingfisher, I have made my nest among the wave... read more