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Les Imbéciles: A Tale of Vanity, Delusion, and the Coming Storm

Les Imbéciles: A Tale of Vanity, Delusion, and the Coming Storm

Rothbard, Milton

Paperback

Series: The Imbeciles Chsronicles, Book 1

HumorGeneral Drama

ISBN13: 9798951153364
Publisher: Mario Lebron
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Les Imbéciles: A Tale of Vanity, Delusion, and the Coming Storm, Milton Rothbard paints a dazzling portrait of pre Revolutionary France at its most decadent and absurd. The novel opens in 1788, when Paris glitters with perfume, gossip, and denial. Four aristocrats-Count François Petit du Rochambord, Marquis Emmanuelle Lapetite, Duke Guillerme Dumonde, and Baron Maximilien de Beaumont Vigny-stumble through nights of wine and self importance, convinced their titles will protect them from reality. Their downfall begins at La Fleur de Lys Écorchée, a brothel where four cunning courtesans-Reine Marie, Émilie, Victoire, and Claudine-turn seduction into strategy, exposing the men's secrets and ambitions with surgical precision.

Watching from her carriage is Duchesse Marguerite Antoinette de La Rivière, ninety one years old and sharper than any blade in France. She becomes the novel's moral compass and comic hurricane, determined to save her country not from revolution but from stupidity. As the Duchesse confronts the fools and their deceivers, Rothbard's satire unfolds with wit and elegance: a kingdom collapsing under the weight of its own vanity.

Through lavish banquets, whispered blackmail, and the Duchesse's merciless humor, Les Imbéciles captures the final glitter before the guillotine. It is a story of laughter and ruin, of people who mistake their reflection for the sun-and of one woman who sees the storm coming long before anyone else.

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