Monsieur de Camors — Complete

"Monsieur de Camors – Complete" by Octave Feuillet

Octave Feuillet was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. By committing suicide, a nobleman leaves a will in he binds to his son, in addition to the title and fortune, a cynical teaching based on the most narrow-minded materialism. The legacy left grants absolute freedom to fulfill one's every wish without being accountable to anyone. In the long run, this generates internal contradictions: the debauched cynic, moved by family affections (of which he had been warned by his father in his farewell letter to life), dies leaving behind heartfelt recommendations for his wife and son.