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Novel La séquestrée de Poitiers André Gide (1930)

La séquestrée de Poitiers d'André Gide (Folio)

On 22 May 1901, the Poitiers public prosecutor learned from an anonymous letter that Miss Melanie Bastian, aged 52, had been locked up for 25 years with her mother, the widow of the former dean of the Faculty of Letters, in a squalid room, among the rubbish. How did this case, in which the guilt of Mrs Bastian and her son seems obvious, lead to the acquittal of the accused?
André Gide masterfully dismantles the file of this legendary case. And he concludes: “Do not judge.

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