Picrate et Siméon

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The narrative opens with a chaotic street episode in which a one-legged man, fiercely proud and vividly described, careens through a crowd in a runaway cart, provoking laughter, scorn, and apprehension; authorities and bystanders alternate between mockery and reluctant intervention. Subsequent passages sketch his meticulous vanity, bodily gestures, and combative humor, while the prose shifts between comic incident and intimate observation. The work interweaves episodic urban encounters and character study to explore social complacency, public spectacle, and the small humiliations and defiant gestures that shape everyday life.

TABLE

PREMIÈRE PARTIE
		Page
I.	La rencontre	1
II.	Histoire de Siméon	21
III.	Picrate interrompt le récit	41
IV.	Suite de l’histoire de Siméon	53
V.	Histoire de Picrate	71
VI.	Picrate pleure et Siméon le console	87
VII.	Suite de l’histoire de Picrate	91
VIII.	Suite de l’histoire de Siméon	109
DEUXIÈME PARTIE
I.	Marie Galande	184
II.	Les amours de Siméon	196
III.	Un meurtre	259
IV.	La mort du souvenir	277
V.	Picrate et Siméon	304
VI.	Epilogue	354

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