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The Double Life

Gaston Leroux

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .But Théophraste soon saw that all these would have to be abandoned. For none of them had the principal qualifications of having been shut up in the Conciergerie in 1721, or having been betrayed on an April 1st.

However, in the Journal of the Barber, he discovered a bastard of the Regent, about whom were some startling facts which precipitated him into a state of great excitement.

Before entering into the details, however, of this discovery, we will return to the doings of Marceline and M. Adolphe Lecamus.







CHAPTER IV Some Philosophy and a Song

LET us leave Paris awhile and return to the little estate on the banks of the Marne, which Théophraste generally moved to with the first rays of the July sun. This year he was to go there before Marceline and his friend, Adolphe, who had been commissioned to survey the timbers on some lands elsew. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Dramatisation audio. Je suis surpris (et déçu) de ne pas avoir abordé cet oeuvre plus tôt! Fantasque et profond. Je reste un fan de Rouletabille avant tout, mais j'ai adoré ces personnages aussi.

strange yet weird story

Marvelous!

A "must-read" if you enjoyed Phantom of the Opera!

This was such an interesting character study. We have Cartouche, the alter ego that even though he’s a murderer with a creative (albeit logical) moral compass we definitely like him better than Theophrastus. Every time it seemed like Theophrastus might overcome his possession, I was always a bit rel

Een grote teleurstelling... het idee was veelbelovend: een beroemde rover, Louis Dominique Cartouche, reïncarneert 200 jaar later in Théophraste... Maar het verhaal loopt uit op een totaal fiasco, waarin niets nog geloofwaardig overkomt en alles verward en grotesk is.
Leroux was duidelijk zijn pedale

The basic premise (middle-aged rubber stamp manufacture becomes possessed by Robber King past life) is hysterical. In practice, though, it is often incoherently violent and I had to take a whole star off for a strange subterranean utopian exploit that was so strangely out of line of the characters.