The Idol of Paris

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the dining-room of a fine house on the Boulevard Raspail all the Darbois family were gathered together about the round table on which a white oil cloth bordered with gold-medallioned portraits of the line of French kings served as table cover at family meals. The Darbois family consisted of François Darbois professor of philosophy a scholar of eminence and distinction; of Madame Darbois his wife a charming gentle little creature without any pretentions; of Philippe Renaud brother of Madame Darbois an honest and able business man; of his son Maurice Renaud twenty-two and a painter a fine youth filled with confidence because of the success he had just achieved at the last Salon; of a distant cousin the family counsellor a tyrannical landlord and self-centered bachelor Adhemar Meydieux and the child of whom he was godfather and around whom all this particular little world revolved.