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Musset transposes into the declining Venice of the sixteenth century the story of his love affair with Aimée d'Alton. He poses the two questions that haunted him all his life: How to live when one is the son of heroic fathers in a disappointing world? Should art or life take precedence?
A novella published in 1838 in the Revue des Deux Mondes.