The Man with the Black Feather - A Paris Stamp-Maker and a Borrowed Soul

Gaston Leroux

Summary

A retired Paris manufacturer of rubber stamps, touring the old prison of the Conciergerie, finds a document two centuries old written in his own hand, and comes to believe that he carries the soul of Cartouche, the eighteenth-century brigand. Leroux wrote it in 1903 for his own paper, Le Matin, before the Yellow Room made his name, and it is the strangest thing he did: half comic novel of a Paris bourgeois, half nightmare of a man who cannot tell which of his instincts are his own. Fifty-seven plates of Paris streets and cafés by Bonnard and Utrillo, from 1820 to 1928, follow the stamp-maker through the city he cannot remember living in.

Available since: 09/16/2026.

Print length: 199 pages.

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