RKS Literature: Vice and Corruption Meet the Dregs of Parisian Society (Guy de Maupassant)

“The place reeked of vice and corruption and the dregs of Parisian society in all its rottenness gathered there: cheats, common and cheap hacks rubbed shoulders with under-age dandies, old roués and rogues, sleazy underworld types once notorious for things best forgotten mingled with other small-time crooks and speculators, dabblers in dubious ventures, frauds, pimpsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Vice and Corruption Meet the Dregs of Parisian Society (Guy de Maupassant)”