Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard member de l'Institut - par Anatole France.
Calmann-Lévy, Paris, [1903?]
(323 pages, 1 leaf); 7 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 inches. 1/4 leather and marbled boards.
Sylvestre
Bonnard, a member of the Institut de France, is a historian and
philologist, gifted with great erudition. He lives among books, and
launches himself into the research, in Sicily and Paris, of the precious
manuscript of the French version of the Golden Legend, which he finally
obtains. By chance he meets a young girl named Jeanne, the daughter of a
woman he once loved. To protect the child from her abusive guardian
Maitre Mouche, he takes her away, and she ends up marrying Henri Gelis,
one of Bonnard's students