The Fat and the Thin

(LE VENTRE DE PARIS)

by Émile Zola

Translated, With An Introduction, By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

[INTRODUCTION]

Let me have men about me that are fat: Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights: Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. SHAKESPEARE: Julius Caesar, act i, sc. 2.

The Fat and the Thin

(LE VENTRE DE PARIS)

by Émile Zola

Translated, With An Introduction, By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Contents

INTRODUCTION