In the canon
The Damned
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1891
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
High above Paris, in the tower of Saint-Sulpice, a bell-ringer keeps his ancient craft alive and feeds his guests hot pot-au-feu while, below, the city goes about its business of blasphemy. Durtal has come there to escape the naturalist novel he no longer believes in, and to write the life of Gilles de Rais: the marshal of France who rode at Joan of Arc's side and then,in the cellars of his castles, murdered children by the hundred.
The field of naturalism is the region below the umbilicus.
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