CHAPTER XIII

M. Villenave's house--The master's despotic rule--The savant's coquetry--Description of the sanctuary of the man of science--I am admitted, thanks to an autograph of _Buonaparte_--The crevice in the wall--The eight thousand folios--The pastel by Latour--Voyages of discovery for an Elzevir or a _Faust_--The fall of the portrait and the death of the original.