# A Tragic Idyl

Author: Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66517

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Tragic+Idyl+Bourget&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

That night (toward the end of February, 188--) a vast crowd was thronging the halls of the Casino at Monte Carlo. It was one of the momentary occasions, well known to all who have passed the winter season on the Corniche, when a sudden and prodigious afflux of composite humanity transfigures that place, ordinarily so vulgar with the brutal luxury of the people whom it satisfies. The gay madness that breaks out at Nice during the Carnival attracts to this little point of the Riviera the moving army of pleasure hunters and adventurers, while the beauty of the climate allures thousands of invalids and people weary of living, the victims of disease and of ill fortune; and on certain nights, l...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/11/index.md)
- [letter X, and without backs, gave the air of a museum to the salon. The](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-tragic-idyl-66517/chapters/6/index.md)