A young priest sees a woman at the moment of his ordination and spends the rest of his life living two: a village curate by day, and by night a Venetian nobleman's companion in the palaces, with Clarimonde, who is dead. Gautier trained as a painter and led the Romantics at the riotous premiere of Hernani in 1830; this 1836 story is the most seductive vampire in French, and the seduction is the argument. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Ingres and Delacroix carry the Romantic storm, the Moorish horsemen and the abductions that Gautier's tales of passion and the supernatural demand.
One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances : Six Fantastic Tales
Geschrieben von Théophile Gautier
