Paris Palimpsest
All tales of her innocence are lies. I swear and always will, that all of it was her fault! Hers, and her idiot father's. Truly, he was the fool who left her too long alone, with too many books. It was too much to bear for the fragile sense of a proper demoiselle. The poor thing started to believe in all this modern foolishness about new morals, education and progress...She filled her head with naught but Voltaire, that deviant who moonlighted into philosophy. A talented fraud who, within...