Ribald Classic: At The Divorce Inn
May, 1975
Alfred De Musset, when he served in the National Guard, was no worse a soldier than anyone else and the fact that he was a talented author seemed no great handicap. He smoked the same tobacco and told the same sort of lies as the rest. His romantic adventures, on the other hand, were a bit different from those of the ordinary private.Women were always charmed by Alfred--his proud looks, his courtesy mixed with a kind of Byronesque impertinence--and it so happened that there were two pretty creat...
