
A doctor, barely out of her orphaned youth, confronts a world that feels suddenly hostile and impenetrable. With a doctorate in hand at twenty‑four, she had once been buoyed by ambition and a quiet pride, convinced that hard work would smooth the path ahead. Yet an unseen weight has settled on her shoulders, a secret she is forbidden to share, and the promise of safety crumbles into dread. Her voice trembles between resolve and terror as she documents the burden that threatens to consume her.
She retreats to the cottage of her aunt Stéphanie in Claire‑Source, the only bright spot in her fragmented past, and begins a nocturnal confession on a lone sheet of paper. The diary entries pulse with raw emotion, hinting at a recent tragedy that has turned her scholarly life into a maze of suspicion and fear. As she records each detail, readers sense the tension between professional duty and a personal nightmare that may unravel everything she has built. The narrative promises a gripping exploration of duty, vulnerability, and the thin line between reality and a haunting dream.
Language
fr
Duration
~8 hours (477K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Clarity, Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Release date
2014-01-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1860–1921
A successful French novelist and poet who wrote under a masculine pen name, she built a wide-ranging career that also included journalism, theater, and translation. Her work was admired in her lifetime for its emotional force and was recognized multiple times by the Académie française.
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