THE LOUVRE


They are logical in their insane heroism, they utter neither cries nor plaints, they endure passively the obscure and rigorous destiny which they allot themselves. They die for the most part, decimated by the malady to which science does not dare to give its true name, ‘la misère.’”

Henry Mürger, Introduction to La Vie de Bohème.


Chapter XIII

THOSE WHO KILL THEMSELVES