The Black SheepPhilippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon's army. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child, but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit. |
Contents
The Bridau family | |
The unfortunate widows | |
Vocation | |
The great man in the family | |
Mariette | |
Philippe absconds 8 How a mothers love can change for the worse | |
Flore Brazier | |
A horrible and vulgar story | |
Old Farios cart | |
The five Hochons | |
MaxenceMachiavelli | |
A stab in the chest | |
A criminal matter | |
Philippe at Issoudun | |
Philippes last acts of misconduct | |
A Bachelors Household in the Provinces | |
Issoudun | |
The Knights of Idleness | |
At La Cognettes | |
Who Will Gain the Inheritance? 21 A chapter which all potential legatees should study | |
A duel to the death | |
Madame Rouget | |
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