Produced by Dagny, and by David Widger
THE CONFESSION OF
A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
BY
ALFRED DE MUSSET
Translated by
Kendall Warren
PART I
CHAPTER I
THE life must be lived before the history of a life can be written, hence
it is not my life that I am writing.
Having been attacked in early youth by an abominable moral malady, I
relate what has happened to me during three years. If I were the only
victim of this disease, I would say nothing, but as there are many others
who suffer from the same evil, I write for them, although I am not sure
that they will pay any attention to it; in case my warning is unheeded, I
shall still have derived this benefit from my words in having cured
myself, and, like the fox caught in a trap, I shall have devoured my
captive foot.