The Nabob

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Gustave Caillebotte. Paris of the Second Empire seen from the waiting rooms: a returned millionaire from Tunis with more money than footing, the doctor who lives off him, the deputies, a charity that is a swindle, and the Duc de Mora with his hand on all of it. Daudet had been secretary to a real duke and...