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An aging veteran living in a convent looks back on a life shaped by passion and greed, narrating travels to distant lands, military service, and slender fortunes. He recalls campaigns under foreign banners, wounds and exile, and employment with a Moorish commander besieging a pagan city, where his appetite for wealth and women drives risky choices. The narrative unfolds as a framed memoir that mixes vivid travel episodes and moral reflection on desire and avarice with a central extraordinary adventure involving an idol in an Eastern city, whose dangers and consequences force the narrator to reckon with his past as he approaches death.

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Title: La gardienne de l'idole noire

Author: Maurice Maindron

Release date: December 30, 2024 [eBook #74995]

Language: French

Original publication: Paris: Lemerre, 1910

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LA GARDIENNE DE L'IDOLE NOIRE ***

MAURICE MAINDRON

La Gardienne
de l’Idole noire

PARIS
ALPHONSE LEMERRE, ÉDITEUR
23-33, PASSAGE CHOISEUL, 23-33
M DCCCCX

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