Musset, Alfred de, 1810-1857 / 2008-07-09 00:00:00

EBOOK CHILD OF THE CENTURY ***


Produced by Dagny, and by David Widger


THE CONFESSION OF
A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
BY
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Translated by
Kendall Warren

PART I

CHAPTER I
THE life must be lived before the history of a life can be written, hence
it is not my life that I am writing.
Having been attacked in early youth by an abominable moral malady, I
relate what has happened to me during three years. If I were the only
victim of this disease, I would say nothing, but as there are many others
who suffer from the same evil, I write for them, although I am not sure
that they will pay any attention to it; in case my warning is unheeded, I
shall still have derived this benefit from my words in having cured
myself, and, like the fox caught in a trap, I shall have devoured my
captive foot.

CHAPTER II
DURING the wars of the Empire, while the husbands and brothers were in
Germany, the anxious mothers brought forth an ardent, pale, nervous
generation. Conceived between two battles, educated amidst the noises of
war, thousands of children looked about them with a somber eye while
testing their puny muscles. From time to time their blood-stained fathers
would appear, raise them on their gold-laced bosoms, then place them on
the ground and remount their horses.
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