An Attic Philosopher in Paris

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Joseph Vernet, Pierre-Antoine Patel and James McNeill Whistler. A poor man in a Paris garret keeps a journal of a year: the first of January, a beggar on the stairs, a rich cousin, a dead neighbor's furniture sold off. Souvestre was a Breton lawyer's son who failed as a publisher and taught school before he found his subject — the quiet lives of...