Gérard Desarthe

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities' depravity contribute to social oppression, and the uprisings flare up one after another.

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he ...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its ...