Claude's Confession

by Émile Zola

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS;

306 CHESTNUT STREET.

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CLAUDE'S CONFESSION.

BY ÉMILE ZOLA.

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DEDICATION

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TO MY FRIENDS, P. CÉZANNE AND J. B. BAILLE.

You knew, my friends, the wretched youth whose letters I now publish. That youth is no more. He wished to become a man amid the wreck and oblivion of his early days.