Filles Du Feu Chimeres
by:
Gerard Nerval (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070314799 (2070314790)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Gallimard Education
Edition language: French
A year after this book came out in 1854, its author hanged himself from a lamppost with an apron-string that he had nicknamed ‘The Queen of Sheba's garter’. Gérard de Nerval was not a well man – although if you're going to be a tragic French Romantic poet, this is an excellent way of asserting your ...